GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs Radeon Pro W5500

Aggregate performance score

Pro W5500
2020
8 GB GDDR6, 125 Watt
23.60

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile outperforms Radeon Pro W5500 by an impressive 65% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking217105
Place by popularitynot in top-10074
Cost-effectiveness evaluation47.80no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Ada Lovelace
GPU code nameNavi 14GN21-X2
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date10 February 2020 (4 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data
Current price$308 (0.8x MSRP)no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores14082560
Boost clock speed1400 MHz2370 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate123.2140.4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon Pro W5500 and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors4x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDAno data8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD55−60
−74.5%
96
+74.5%
1440p27−30
−81.5%
49
+81.5%
4K18−20
−72.2%
31
+72.2%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 23.60 38.97
Recency 10 February 2020 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 115 Watt

The GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon Pro W5500 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W5500 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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