GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 4050
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)
GeForce RTX 4050 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 124% (2640MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
896 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 4050
+244%
13520
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2505 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2640 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
96bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
216.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
18
1664
Shading Units
2560
104
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
18
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
84.48 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
211.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.52 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.52 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
211.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
115W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD107
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
159 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
