NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB, 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 5080

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4302 points

24070 points

459% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

559 FPS

455 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

276 FPS

223 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

76 FPS

406 FPS

330 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

225 FPS

184 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2581.07 points

9133.30 points

253% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

75551 points

267906 points

254% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

75827 points

257198 points

239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1455 MHz

2295 MHz

57% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1755 MHz

2617 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

96 Bit

256 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

960 GB/s

400% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

619% significantly lower TDP

360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.16 Gigapixels/s

293.1 Gigapixels/s

421% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

140.4 Gigatexels/s

879.3 Gigatexels/s

526% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.99 TFLOPS

56.28 TFLOPS

526% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

10752

319% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

319% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

117th of 586

4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2025 January

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 5080 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 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 RTX 5080 at 360 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.