NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 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 11 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 797 MHz
  • 2.9x more boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 915 MHz
  • 4866.4x more texture fill rate: 211.2 GTexel/s vs 43.4 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 2560 vs 640
  • 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
Launch date 2023 vs 10 March 2014
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 797 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 915 MHz
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s vs 43.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
PassMark - G3D Mark 3072
PassMark - G2D Mark 226
Geekbench - OpenCL 10427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 22.828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 210.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 162.83
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1151

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Kepler
Code name AD106 GK104
Launch date 2023 10 March 2014
Place in performance rating not rated 853
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 915 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 797 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
Pipelines 2560 640
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s 43.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 75 Watt
CUDA cores 1152 or 640
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops
Transistor count 3,540 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

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 None
Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 3.0 1.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 80.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration GDDR5

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA