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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs Adreno X1-85

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
Adreno X1-85
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 8 months newer Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-85 over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 6 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Ray-tracing support with 20 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 3.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 24K)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 67% more shading units (2560 vs 1536)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
vs
Adreno X1-85

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
 -
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
 -
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
 -
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
 -
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
 -
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
 -
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
 -
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
 -
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 -
1080p Ultra 75 -
1440p Ultra 53 -
4K Ultra 28 -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 4050 Laptop +283%
7909
Adreno X1-85
2067
Time Spy 8212 1695
Solar Bay 35375 10596
Port Royal 4624 -
Fire Strike 21909 6134
Wild Life Extreme 15492 6152
Night Raid 84848 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4050 Laptop +234%
81436
Adreno X1-85
24387
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 4692.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4050 Laptop +377%
14217
Adreno X1-85
2981
G2D Mark 622 518
DirectX 11 129 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 7 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 2080 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343
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Adreno X1-85
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop +615%
15570
Adreno X1-85
2178
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop +738%
27160
Adreno X1-85
3240
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4050 Laptop +570%
12230
Adreno X1-85
1825
Image Classification (SP) 6233 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 3084
Face Detection (HP) 30758 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 7719
Text Classification (SP) 3124 292
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 1108
Object Detection (SP) 7812 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 12048
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Nvidia Qualcomm
Build Discrete Integrated
Released February 22, 2023 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Ada Lovelace Adreno X1
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (66th and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 6
Tensor Cores 80 -
Ray-tracing Cores 20 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 51-76 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop +163%
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 IGP
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Die Size 156 mm² -
Transistor Count 18.9 billion -
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 System Shared
Memory Size 6 GB -
Memory Clock 2000 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps -
Bus 96-bit -
ECC No -
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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