GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated123
Place by popularitynot in top-10054
Power efficiencyno data51.42
ArchitectureXG4 (2003−2005)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameXG40AD107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date15 September 2003 (21 year 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 coresno data2560
Core clock speed350 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1755 MHz
Number of transistors110 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate2.800140.4
Floating-point processing powerno data8.986 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs880
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 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x Molexno 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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth32 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.54.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 September 2003 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 4 nm

RTX 4050 Mobile has an age advantage of 19 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra
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