Radeon RX 7500 XT vs GeForce RTX 4050

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking122not rated
Place by popularity41not in top-100
Power efficiency26.02no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD107Navi 33
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2023 (1 year ago)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 cores25601024
Core clock speed2505 MHz1452 MHz
Boost clock speed2640 MHz2300 MHz
Number of transistors18,900 million13,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate211.2147.2
Floating-point processing power13.52 TFLOPS9.421 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8064
Tensor Cores120no data
Ray Tracing Cores1816

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin1x 6-pin

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 GB6 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth216.0 GB/s216.0 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 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++

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
OpenCL3.02.2
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm

RTX 4050 has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4050 and Radeon RX 7500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
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