GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs Radeon Instinct MI50

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated124
Place by popularitynot in top-10054
Power efficiencyno data51.42
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVega 20AD107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date18 November 2018 (6 years 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 cores38402560
Core clock speed1200 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed1746 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate419.0140.4
Floating-point processing power13.41 TFLOPS8.986 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs24080
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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB6 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth1.02 TB/s192.0 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 Connectors1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2018 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 50 Watt

Instinct MI50 has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4050 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 500% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI50 and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Instinct MI50 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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