CDNA3 vs GeForce RTX 4050

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking120not rated
Place by popularity55not in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameAD107CDNA3
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2023 (1 year ago)no data

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 cores25602x 7040
Boost clock speed2640 MHzno data
Number of transistors18,900 million146,000 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rate211.2no data
ROPs32no data
TMUs802x 440

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8no data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-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 typeGDDR6HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount6 GB2x 64 GB MB
Memory bus width96 Bit2x 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed18 GB/sno data
Memory bandwidth216.0 GB/s2x 1638 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4ano data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)N/A
Shader Model6.7N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


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