NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 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 980M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

4302 points

160% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

104 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

53 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

76 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

41 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

2581.07 points

876% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

75551 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

75827 points

217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

1455 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

1755 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

192 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

50 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

140.4 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

159% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2560

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% slightly 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

230th of 586

117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980M vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a slightly 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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 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 980M.