NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4302 points
16967 points
294% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS
394 FPS
290 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS
213 FPS
160 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

76 FPS
288 FPS
213 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS
163 FPS
122 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2581.07 points
7942.06 points
207% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

75551 points
215096 points
184% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

75827 points
191283 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1455 MHz
46% significantly higher core clock speed
990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1755 MHz
15% slightly higher boost clock speed
1515 MHz

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
896 GB/s
366% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
89% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.16 Gigapixels/s
169.7 Gigapixels/s
202% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

140.4 Gigatexels/s
496.9 Gigatexels/s
253% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
10496
309% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
328
309% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
112
250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

117th of 586
14th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.

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