NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4256 points

4339 points

1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

103 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

92 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

64 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

75 FPS

90 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

50 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2581.07 points

2969.98 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

75551 points

85838 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

75827 points

80080 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1455 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1755 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

96 Bit

128 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

384 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

Identical

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.16 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

140.4 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

Identical

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

119th of 597

115th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop also has a slightly 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, both the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.