NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 832 MHz
Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1755 MHz vs 1537 MHz
Around 43% higher texture fill rate: 140.4 GTexel/s vs 98.37 GTexel/s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Around 80% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74538 vs 41433

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 832 MHz
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz vs 1537 MHz
Texture fill rate	140.4 GTexel/s vs 98.37 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2560 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	74538 vs 41433

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

41433

74538

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	41433	74538
PassMark - G2D Mark		630
PassMark - G3D Mark		14441
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1788

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace
Code name	GA107S	AD107
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	2023
Place in performance rating	511	167
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	1755 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	1455 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)	140.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)	8.986 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS	8.986 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	2560
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s	56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	140.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		115 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
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	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	192.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	96 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6