NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 300 Watt
Launch date 2023 vs 28 Oct 2020
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 1140 MHz
  • Around 40% higher boost clock speed: 2250 MHz vs 1605 MHz
  • 5.6x more texture fill rate: 720.0 GTexel/s vs 128.4 GTexel/s
  • 2x more pipelines: 5120 vs 2560
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1825 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed 2250 MHz vs 1605 MHz
Texture fill rate 720.0 GTexel/s vs 128.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5120 vs 2560
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 26746
PassMark - G2D Mark 1052
Geekbench - OpenCL 166557
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 543.753
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 51.155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2566.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17213
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17213
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 21090

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 2.0
Code name AD107 Navi 21
Launch date 2023 28 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating not rated 62
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1605 MHz 2250 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 128.4 GFLOPS (1:64) 1440 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS (1:1) 46.08 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS 23.04 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 5120
Pixel fill rate 51.36 GPixel/s 288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s 720.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 300 Watt
Compute units 80
Transistor count 26800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Triple-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Height 50 mm (2 inches)
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt
Width 120 mm (4.7 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 168.0 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 96 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6