NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1605MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +446%

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1605 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.04 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.218 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.218 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

AD107

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

Maxwell

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

Unknown

148 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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