NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) 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 - 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2.7x more core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 926 MHz
  • 2.2x more boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1206 MHz
  • 1367.9x more texture fill rate: 211.2 GTexel/s vs 154.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Launch date 2023 vs 4 August 2016
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 926 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1206 MHz
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s vs 154.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 2.9x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
PassMark - G3D Mark 7965
PassMark - G2D Mark 723
Geekbench - OpenCL 33787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1817.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 99.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 511.362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1674
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 842

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace GCN 4.0
Code name AD106 Ellesmere
Launch date 2023 4 August 2016
Place in performance rating not rated 389
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Price now $109.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 100.00

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 1206 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 926 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 14 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
Pipelines 2560 2048
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s 154.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 120 Watt
Compute units 32
Floating-point performance 4.9 TFLOPs
GPU Power 85-110 Watt
Stream Processors 2048
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Length 241 mm

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 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 211 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 6600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore