NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 175 Watt
Launch date 2023 vs 17 October 2018
Pipelines 2560 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 175 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1410 MHz vs 1140 MHz
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 1605 MHz
  • 8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1410 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed 1620 MHz vs 1605 MHz
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
PassMark - G3D Mark 16112
PassMark - G2D Mark 819
Geekbench - OpenCL 88096
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 251.703
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3742.063
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 27.153
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 153.341
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1304.365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 22615
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 22615
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1569

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
Code name AD107 TU106
Launch date 2023 17 October 2018
Place in performance rating not rated 151
Launch price (MSRP) $499
Price now $499.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 42.76

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1605 MHz 1620 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 128.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 2304
Pixel fill rate 51.36 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 175 Watt
Transistor count 10,800 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Length 229 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 168.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 96 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6