GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs Radeon RX Vega M GL

Place in performance ranking	437	105
Place by popularity	not in top-100	56
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.57	no data
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Ada Lovelace
GPU code name	Polaris 22	GN21-X2
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 February 2018 (6 years ago)	3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Current price	$1307	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores	1280	2560
Core clock speed	931 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz	2370 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate	80.88	140.4
Floating-point performance	2,588 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega M GL and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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 size	no data	large
Interface	IGP	PCIe 4.0 x16

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 type	HBM2	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	1024 Bit	96 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	192.0 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 Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	no data	8.9

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 HD	21−24 −357%	96 +357%
1440p	12−14 −317%	50 +317%
4K	7−8 −357%	32 +357%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
High Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

18−20

−721%

156
+721%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

18−20

−321%

80
+321%

4K
High Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

7−8

−571%

47
+571%

This is how RX Vega M GL and RTX 4050 Mobile compete in popular games:

RTX 4050 Mobile is 357% faster in 1080p
RTX 4050 Mobile is 317% faster in 1440p
RTX 4050 Mobile is 357% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 1080p resolution and the High Preset, the RTX 4050 Mobile is 721% faster than the RX Vega M GL.

All in all, in popular games:

Without exception, RTX 4050 Mobile surpassed RX Vega M GL in all 3 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.39	38.91
Recency	1 February 2018	3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	115 Watt