NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 550 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 4050 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 48% higher boost clock speed: 1755 MHz vs 1183 MHz
3708.4x more texture fill rate: 140.4 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 630 vs 476
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14441 vs 2690
6.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74538 vs 11610
14.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1788 vs 127

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate	140.4 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2560 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	630 vs 476
PassMark - G3D Mark	14441 vs 2690
Geekbench - OpenCL	74538 vs 11610
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1788 vs 127

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 115 Watt
3.5x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 115 Watt
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

630

476

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

14441

2690

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

74538

11610

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1788

127

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 550
PassMark - G2D Mark	630	476
PassMark - G3D Mark	14441	2690
Geekbench - OpenCL	74538	11610
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1788	127
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2158

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 550
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	GCN 4.0
Code name	AD107	Lexa
Launch date	2023	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	167	876
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$79
Price now		$75
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		59.51
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz	1183 MHz
Core clock speed	1455 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	140.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.986 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.986 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	512
Pixel fill rate	56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	140.4 GTexel/s	37.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	50 Watt
Floating-point performance		1.2 TFLOPs
Transistor count		2,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		145 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		400 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	96 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)