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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

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NVIDIA RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

Higher Boost Clock: 1605-2370MHz (1605-2370MHz vs 2025MHz)
Larger Memory Size: 6GB (6GB vs 4GB)
Higher Bandwidth: 192.0 GB/s (192.0 GB/s vs 128.0 GB/s)
More Shading Units: 2560 (2560 vs 2048)

NVIDIA RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation

Newer Launch Date: February 2024 (February 2023 vs February 2024)

Basic

NVIDIA

Label Name

NVIDIA

February 2023

Launch Date

February 2024

Laptop

Platform

Mobile

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU

Model Name

RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation

GeForce 40

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Base Clock

1485MHz

1605-2370MHz

Boost Clock

2025MHz

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

RT Cores

Tensor Cores

Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC 4N

Process Size

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Memory Specifications

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

64bit

2000MHz

Memory Clock

2000MHz

192.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

128.0 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

75.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

64.80 GPixel/s

189.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

129.6 GTexel/s

12.13 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

8.294 TFLOPS

189.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

129.6 GFLOPS

12.13 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

8.46 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

SM Count

Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.

2560

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

2048

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

12MB

L2 Cache

12MB

35-115W

TDP

35W

1.3

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.3

3.0

OpenCL Version

3.0

4.6

OpenGL

8.9

CUDA

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

6.7

Shader Model