NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 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 950M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

575 points

4302 points

648% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

104 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

53 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

76 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

41 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

101.04 points

2581.07 points

2454% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points

75551 points

669% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8825 points

75827 points

759% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

993 MHz

1455 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1124 MHz

1755 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

192 GB/s

566% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.98 Gigapixels/s

56.16 Gigapixels/s

212% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

44.96 Gigatexels/s

140.4 Gigatexels/s

212% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2560

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

314th of 586

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 950M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 950M.