GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q sales 3 January 2023. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ada Lovelace architecture and made with 4 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 96 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 168.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD107
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1140 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed1605 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology4 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate128.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power8.218 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs80of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores80of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores20of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width96 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1750 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth168.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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AMD equivalent

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