NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 82% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • Around 66% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1590 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
Launch date 2023 vs 29 January 2019
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1590 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 12 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

  • Around 15% higher pipelines: 2944 vs 2560
  • 5.3x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Pipelines 2944 vs 2560
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

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

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 10073
PassMark - G2D Mark 804
PassMark - G3D Mark 15014
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6319
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5714

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
Code name AD106 TU104
Launch date 2023 29 January 2019
Place in performance rating not rated 95
Price now $699.99
Type Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 37.18

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 1590 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 1380 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 150 Watt
Transistor count 13,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs

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) 12.0
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 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6