NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

2.3x more texture fill rate: 480.2 GTexel/s vs 211.2 GTexel/s
2.3x more pipelines: 5888 vs 2560
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB

Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s vs 211.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines	5888 vs 2560
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 2310 MHz
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 2610 MHz
Around 90% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 285 Watt
Around 71% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	2505 MHz vs 2310 MHz
Boost clock speed	2640 MHz vs 2610 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 285 Watt
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
PassMark - G2D Mark	1166
PassMark - G3D Mark	26959
Geekbench - OpenCL	168049
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	417.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	55.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	245.639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2459.317

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ada Lovelace
Code name	AD104	AD106
Launch date	2023	2023
Place in performance rating	35	not rated
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz	2640 MHz
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	2505 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)	211.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)	13.52 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	30.74 TFLOPS	13.52 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5888	2560
Pixel fill rate	167.0 GPixel/s	84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s	211.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	285 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 12-pin
Width	140 mm, 5.5 inches
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	12 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	504.2 GB/s	288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6X	GDDR6