GeForce RTX 4050: specs and benchmarks

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GeForce RTX 4050 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 37.50% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4050 sales on 2023. This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ada Lovelace architecture and made with 5 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 96 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 216.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. 1x 12-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 100 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 4050: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking123
Place by popularity44
Power efficiency25.71of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD107
Market segmentDesktop
Release date2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 4050's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 4050's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed2505 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed2640 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors18,900 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate211.2of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power13.52 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs80of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores120of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores18of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 4050 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4050: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width96 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth216.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4050. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4050, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 4050. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX 4050 37.50

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX 4050 14451

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 4050 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce RTX 4050's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Arc B580 102.59
GeForce RTX 4050 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4050 is Radeon RX 5700, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce RTX 4050:

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