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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4256 points

16967 points

298% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

103 FPS

394 FPS

291 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

213 FPS

161 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

75 FPS

288 FPS

214 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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2581.07 points

7942.06 points

207% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

75551 points

215096 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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

328

309% 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

119th of 597

14th of 597

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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 our comparison, 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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop at 95 W. 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 5090 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.