NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super 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 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 52% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1650 MHz
  • Around 45% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1815 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Launch date 2023 vs 23 July 2019
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 1650 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1815 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2560
  • 6.2x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Pipelines 3072 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 Super

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
PassMark - G3D Mark 19514
PassMark - G2D Mark 920
Geekbench - OpenCL 115804
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 338.122
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4571.03
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 31.6
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 190.349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1653.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
Code name AD106 TU104
Launch date 2023 23 July 2019
Place in performance rating not rated 110
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 1815 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 1650 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 3072
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 250 Watt
CUDA cores 3072
Maximum GPU temperature 89 C
Render output units 64

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Display Port 1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays 4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 6 pin + 8 pin
Height 4.556” (115.7mm)
Length 10.5” (266.74mm)
Width 2-Slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 496 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready