NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M 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 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1605MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +702%

8.218 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

-

1605 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

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

16 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

128.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

8.218 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

128.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Heathrow

GN21-X2

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.5 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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