GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs Radeon R8 M445DX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking884not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10073
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameMesoGA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)17 December 2021 (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 cores3202048
Core clock speed780 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed1021 MHz1155 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data30 Watt
Texture fill rate20.4273.92
Floating-point processing power0.6534 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.06.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 17 December 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX 2050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R8 M445DX and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R8 M445DX is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R8 M445DX
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