NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 65% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1515 MHz
Around 54% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1710 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 215 Watt

Launch date	2023 vs 20 September 2018
Core clock speed	2505 MHz vs 1515 MHz
Boost clock speed	2640 MHz vs 1710 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 215 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Around 15% higher pipelines: 2944 vs 2560
6.2x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Pipelines	2944 vs 2560
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
PassMark - G3D Mark		18750
PassMark - G2D Mark		908
Geekbench - OpenCL		105219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		326.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3938.377
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		31.684
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		159.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1506.874
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		6293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		6293
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1752

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Turing
Code name	AD106	TU104
Launch date	2023	20 September 2018
Place in performance rating	not rated	105
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$749.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2640 MHz	1710 MHz
Core clock speed	2505 MHz	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	12 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	2944
Pixel fill rate	84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	211.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	215 Watt
Transistor count		13,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
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 + 1x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	14000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6