GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs GTX 780 Ti 6 GB

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated122
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Power efficiencyno data52.18
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK110BAD107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 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 cores28802560
Core clock speed875 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed928 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors7,080 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate222.7140.4
Floating-point processing powerno data8.986 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs24080
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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed7 GB/s16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth336.6 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2Portable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1751.3
CUDA3.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 4050 Mobile has a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 780 Ti 6 GB and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 780 Ti 6 GB is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 6 GB
GeForce GTX 780 Ti 6 GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

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