GeForce RTX 4050 vs GeForce4 Ti 4200-8X

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated123
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Power efficiencyno data25.71
ArchitectureKelvin (2001−2003)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV28 A1AD107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date6 February 2002 (22 years 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 coresno data2560
Core clock speed250 MHz2505 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2640 MHz
Number of transistors36 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000211.2
Floating-point processing powerno data13.52 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs880
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data18

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth4 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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 5 nm

RTX 4050 has a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200-8X
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