NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 700 MHz
1897.1x more texture fill rate: 79.68 GTexel/s vs 42 billion / sec
4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 40 nm
8.3x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 250 Watt
2.7x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1536 MB
Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 480 vs 430
Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7753 vs 4121
3.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 43499 vs 13143

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Dec 2021 vs 26 March 2010
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s vs 42 billion / sec
Pipelines	2048 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1536 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	480 vs 430
PassMark - G3D Mark	7753 vs 4121
Geekbench - OpenCL	43499 vs 13143

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 1848 MHz (3696 data rate) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Memory clock speed	1848 MHz (3696 data rate) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

480

430

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7753

4121

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

43499

13143

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
PassMark - G2D Mark	480	430
PassMark - G3D Mark	7753	4121
Geekbench - OpenCL	43499	13143
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	274	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		34.483
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		706.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		106.875
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3320
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3320

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Fermi
Code name	GA107	GF100
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	26 March 2010
Place in performance rating	348	742
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Price now		$71.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		61.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	159.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.100 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	480
Pixel fill rate	39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s	42 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	250 Watt
CUDA cores		480
Floating-point performance		1,345.0 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Transistor count		3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None	6-pin & 8-pin
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
SLI options		2-way, 3-way
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.2
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	177.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
SLI