GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs RTX 4050 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking122not rated
Place by popularity44not in top-100
Power efficiency52.17no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD107AD104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores25607424
Core clock speed1455 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1755 MHz1350 MHz
Number of transistorsno data35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate140.4313.2
Floating-point processing power8.986 TFLOPS20.04 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs80232
Tensor Cores80232
Ray Tracing Cores2058

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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB12 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 GB/s1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s336.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 4050 Mobile has 20% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 Max-Q, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q
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