GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs Go 7800 GTX

Place in performance ranking	1183	105
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	G7x (2005−2007)	Ada Lovelace
GPU code name	G70M	GN21-X2
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	29 September 2005 (18 years ago)	3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Current price	$207	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	32	2560
Core clock speed	8 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	440 MHz	2370 MHz
Number of transistors	302 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate	10.56	140.4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce Go 7800 GTX and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	large
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	GDDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	6 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	96 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	35.2 GB/s	192.0 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 Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	3.0	6.7
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	no data	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	1−2 −9500%	96 +9500%
1440p	0−1	50
4K	-0−1	32

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

2−3

−5050%

103
+5050%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −4200%	85−90 +4200%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −4050%	83 +4050%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −1900%	80−85 +1900%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −5800%	110−120 +5800%
Hitman 3	3−4 −3600%	111 +3600%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −1227%	140−150 +1227%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −2450%	204 +2450%

Full HD
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −4200%	85−90 +4200%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −3450%	71 +3450%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −2350%	98 +2350%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −5800%	110−120 +5800%
Hitman 3	3−4 −1467%	47 +1467%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −1227%	140−150 +1227%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −1575%	134 +1575%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4 −5100%	156 +5100%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −4200%	85−90 +4200%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −3150%	65 +3150%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −1900%	80−85 +1900%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −5800%	110−120 +5800%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 −1227%	140−150 +1227%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4 −2567%	80 +2567%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −1375%	55−60 +1375%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −3500%	36 +3500%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −6800%	69 +6800%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −2733%	85−90 +2733%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2 −5800%	59 +5800%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry 5	4−5 −2350%	98 +2350%
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2 −4800%	45−50 +4800%

4K
Ultra Preset

Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2 −4800%	45−50 +4800%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −925%	40−45 +925%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

2−3

−1650%

35−40
+1650%

This is how Go 7800 GTX and RTX 4050 Mobile compete in popular games:

RTX 4050 Mobile is 9500% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Far Cry 5, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RTX 4050 Mobile is 6800% faster than the Go 7800 GTX.

All in all, in popular games:

Without exception, RTX 4050 Mobile surpassed Go 7800 GTX in all 32 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.54	38.93
Recency	29 September 2005	3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	6 GB
Chip lithography	110 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	115 Watt