GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs Quadro4 100 NVS

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated159
Place by popularitynot in top-10016
Power efficiencyno data52.42
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV17 A3AD107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date22 December 2003 (21 years ago)3 January 2023 (2 years 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 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1755 MHz
Number of transistors29 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate1.000140.4
Floating-point processing powerno data8.986 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs480
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth5.312 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x LFH60Portable Device Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX8.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2003 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 50 Watt

Quadro4 100 NVS has 400% lower power consumption.

RTX 4050 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 19 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro4 100 NVS and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro4 100 NVS is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook one.

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