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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 RTX 4050 Max Q +446%

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

1605 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

128.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

8.218 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

128.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GM107

GN21-X2

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.87 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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