GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile vs GTX 480M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking679not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.90no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameGF100GB207
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date25 May 2010 (14 years ago)2025

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 cores3522560
Core clock speed425 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate18.70201.6
Floating-point processing power0.5984 TFLOPS12.9 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs4480
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 sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 5.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/s224.0 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 115 Watt

GTX 480M has 15% lower power consumption.

RTX 5050 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 480M and GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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