NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs AMD Radeon R9 350

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and AMD Radeon R9 350 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2.7x more core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 2560 vs 768
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Launch date 2023 vs 12 June 2015
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 925 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

  • Around 58% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 350

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 AMD Radeon R9 350
Geekbench - OpenCL 9926
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 AMD Radeon R9 350

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Tobago
Code name AD106
Launch date 2023 12 June 2015
Place in performance rating not rated 585
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 211.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS 1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 768
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 95 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2 x DisplayPort, DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays 4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.3
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 72 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)