NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 87% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 780 MHz
  • Around 36% higher boost clock speed: 1755 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Launch date 2023 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed 1455 MHz vs 780 MHz
Boost clock speed 1755 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

  • Around 47% higher texture fill rate: 206.4 GTexel/s vs 140.4 GTexel/s
  • 2x more pipelines: 5120 vs 2560
  • Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 115 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 643 vs 630
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15361 vs 14441
  • Around 24% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 92696 vs 74538
  • Around 33% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2380 vs 1788
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 206.4 GTexel/s vs 140.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5120 vs 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 115 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 643 vs 630
PassMark - G3D Mark 15361 vs 14441
Geekbench - OpenCL 92696 vs 74538
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2380 vs 1788

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
630
643
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
14441
15361
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
74538
92696
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1788
2380
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 630 643
PassMark - G3D Mark 14441 15361
Geekbench - OpenCL 74538 92696
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1788 2380
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 449.647
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4619.617
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 36.308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 181.818
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1410.887
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 24877
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 11471
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 13334
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 24877
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 11471
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 13334

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD107 GA104
Launch date 2023 12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating 167 81
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1755 MHz 1290 MHz
Core clock speed 1455 MHz 780 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 140.4 GFLOPS (1:64) 206.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.986 TFLOPS (1:1) 13.21 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.986 TFLOPS 13.21 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 5120
Pixel fill rate 56.16 GPixel/s 103.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 140.4 GTexel/s 206.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Laptop size large

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 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 96 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready