NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile sales 3 January 2023. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ada Lovelace architecture and made with 5 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GHz are supplied, and together with 96 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP).

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 38.97% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking	106
Place by popularity	71
Architecture	Ada Lovelace
GPU code name	GN21-X2
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	3 January 2023 (1 year old)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2560	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed	2370 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	140.4	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile's 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
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile: 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 type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	96 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	16000 GB/s	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile. 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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

API support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	8.9

Benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 Mobile 38.97

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 4050 Mobile 85660

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 4050 Mobile 30717

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 4050 Mobile 22320

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 4050 Mobile 136776

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

RTX 4050 Mobile 552112

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 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.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD	101
1440p	53
4K	32

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

103

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	65−70
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	117
Battlefield 5	110−120
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	100−110
Cyberpunk 2077	83
Far Cry 5	124
Far Cry New Dawn	90−95
Forza Horizon 4	110−120
Hitman 3	111
Horizon Zero Dawn	131
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	126
Watch Dogs: Legion	118

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	65−70
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	92
Battlefield 5	110−120
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	100−110
Cyberpunk 2077	71
Far Cry 5	114
Far Cry New Dawn	90−95
Forza Horizon 4	110−120
Hitman 3	98
Horizon Zero Dawn	106
Metro Exodus	85
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	108
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	156
Watch Dogs: Legion	106

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	65−70
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	70
Battlefield 5	110−120
Cyberpunk 2077	65
Far Cry 5	107
Far Cry New Dawn	90−95
Forza Horizon 4	110−120
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	80
Watch Dogs: Legion	52

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	65−70
Hitman 3	60
Horizon Zero Dawn	72
Metro Exodus	50
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	67

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	40−45
Battlefield 5	80−85
Cyberpunk 2077	36
Far Cry 5	69
Far Cry New Dawn	70−75
Forza Horizon 4	80−85
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	59
Watch Dogs: Legion	35

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	35−40
Hitman 3	35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn	20
Metro Exodus	45
Red Dead Redemption 2	21−24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	33
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	47

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	24−27
Battlefield 5	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	18
Far Cry 5	43
Far Cry New Dawn	40−45
Forza Horizon 4	50−55
Watch Dogs: Legion	26

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile 100.28

Radeon RX 7700S 100.28

GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile 100.08

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 100

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile 99.51

Radeon RX 6700S 98.56

Radeon RX 6650M 97.59

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is Radeon RX 7700S, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.