GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated124
Place by popularitynot in top-10051
Power efficiencyno data51.39
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)3 January 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 cores162560
Core clock speed1296 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1755 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data140.4
Floating-point processing powerno data8.986 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data80
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

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 data16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

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


Recency 10 November 2020 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 50 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU has 400% lower power consumption.

RTX 4050 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU
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