NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 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 RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

182% significantly better overall score

4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

185 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

104 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

131 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

76 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

108 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

72 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

109% significantly higher Blender score

2581.07 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

75551 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

75827 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

1455 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

1755 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

66% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

87% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

50 W

499% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

246% significantly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s

287% significantly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS

287% significantly better floating point performance

8.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168

180% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 586

117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 4070 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 4070 at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.