NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and AMD Radeon RX 470D videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 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
  • 1563.3x more texture fill rate: 211.2 GTexel/s vs 135.1 GTexel / s
  • Around 43% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 1792
  • 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 21 October 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 135.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 1792
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470D

  • 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 specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 AMD Radeon RX 470D

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace GCN 4.0
Code name AD106 Ellesmere
Launch date 2023 21 October 2016
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop

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 1792
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s 135.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 120 Watt
Floating-point performance 4,322 gflops
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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 1x 6-pin
Length 241 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 211.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 6600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5