GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q vs GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q 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
GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
7168 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1605MHz vs 1455MHz)
Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q
+244%
28310
GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q
8218
Graphics Card
Jan 2023
Release Date
Jan 2023
GeForce 40 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
930 MHz
Base Clock
1140 MHz
1455 MHz
Boost Clock
1605 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
96bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
76
SM Count
20
9728
Shading Units
2560
304
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
48
304
Tensor Cores
80
76
RT Cores
20
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
12 MB
Theoretical Performance
163.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.04 GPixel/s
442.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.4 GTexel/s
28.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.218 TFLOPS
28.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.218 TFLOPS
442.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
128.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
35W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
AD107
GN21-X11
GPU Variant
GN21-X2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
5 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
379 mm²
Die Size
159 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
