GeForce RTX 4050 vs Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated122
Place by popularitynot in top-10041
Power efficiencyno data25.91
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores142560
Core clock speed1296 MHz2505 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2640 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data211.2
Floating-point processing powerno data13.52 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data80
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data18

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data96 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data216.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 100 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU has 566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 4050. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4050 is a desktop one.


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Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU
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