NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 21 year(s) 7 month(s) later
3.1x more core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 475 MHz
73894.7x more texture fill rate: 140.4 GTexel/s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 130 nm
24x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 256 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 950 MHz
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 630 vs 274
244.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14441 vs 59

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	140.4 GTexel/s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 950 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	630 vs 274
PassMark - G3D Mark	14441 vs 59

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Around 55% lower typical power consumption: 74 Watt vs 115 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	74 Watt vs 115 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

630

274

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

14441

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
PassMark - G2D Mark	630	274
PassMark - G3D Mark	14441	59
Geekbench - OpenCL	74538
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1788

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Rankine
Code name	AD107	NV38 A1
Launch date	2023	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	167	637
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz
Core clock speed	1455 MHz	475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	130 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
Pixel fill rate	56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	140.4 GTexel/s	1.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	74 Watt
Transistor count		135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
Length		229 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0a
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	96 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	950 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR