NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2374 points

4302 points

81% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

51 FPS

104 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

53 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

76 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

41 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

344.38 points

2581.07 points

649% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28485 points

75551 points

165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

27238 points

75827 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

875 MHz

1455 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

928 MHz

1755 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

50 W

400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

55.68 Gigapixels/s

56.16 Gigapixels/s

0.86% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.7 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.34 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

68% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2880

12% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

186th of 586

117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.