AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon 550X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1605MHz vs 1287MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +398%

8.218 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

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GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2023

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

1605 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.04 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.4 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.218 TFLOPS

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.218 TFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

AD107

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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