NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 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 4060 Max-Q

  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2560
  • Around 76% lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 150 Watt
Pipelines 3072 vs 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1140 MHz
  • Around 80% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1470 MHz
  • Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 211.2 GTexel/s vs 141.1 GTexel/s
  • Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1470 MHz
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s vs 141.1 GTexel/s
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
Code name AD107 AD106
Launch date 2023 2023
Place in performance rating not rated not rated

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1470 MHz 2640 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 2505 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 141.1 GFLOPS (1:64) 211.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.032 TFLOPS (1:1) 13.52 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.032 TFLOPS 13.52 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3072 2560
Pixel fill rate 47.04 GPixel/s 84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 141.1 GTexel/s 211.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 150 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 12-pin
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6