NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1140 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 1605 MHz vs 1245 MHz
  • Around 61% higher texture fill rate: 128.4 GTexel/s vs 79.68 GTexel/s
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
Launch date 2023 vs 17 Dec 2021
Core clock speed 1140 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed 1605 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s vs 79.68 GTexel/s
Pipelines 2560 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 85 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 85 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 480
PassMark - G3D Mark 7753
Geekbench - OpenCL 43499
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 274

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD107 GA107
Launch date 2023 17 Dec 2021
Place in performance rating not rated 348

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1605 MHz 1245 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 128.4 GFLOPS (1:64) 159.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS (1:1) 10.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS 5.100 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 2048
Pixel fill rate 51.36 GPixel/s 39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s 79.68 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 30 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None None
Height 35 mm, 1.4 inches
Length 229 mm, 9 inches
Width 113 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 168.0 GB/s 112.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 96 bit 64 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6