GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 6 years and 3 months older GTX 1050 Ti Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 6 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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 GTX 1050 Ti Laptop over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 4.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 2.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 4.1x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 13 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 20 dedicated RT cores

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
32
18
14
-
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
23
20
15
-
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
49
27
20
-
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
31
28
18
10
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
16
13
11
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
29
24
14
12
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
15
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
15
11
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
29
24
15
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 27
1080p Ultra 75 19
1440p Ultra 53 13
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
Time Spy 8212 2345
Solar Bay 35375 -
Port Royal 4624 -
Fire Strike 21909 7709
Wild Life Extreme 15492 4954
Night Raid 84848 31468
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 57 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 27.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 0.84 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 1.22 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 1.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 73.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 2037 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
G2D Mark 622 323
DirectX 11 129 FPS 45 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 24 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 2190 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 1541 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2567.25
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2120 & 22 samples

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
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
No benchmark results yet

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 6233 1393
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 2013
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 4766
Face Detection (HP) 30758 3370
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 17580
Text Classification (SP) 3124 1319
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 1662
Object Detection (SP) 7812 1771
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 6411
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 28772
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 3, 2017
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Pascal
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) GP107 (N17P-G1)
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S -
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 8300H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (67th and 129th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 1493 MHz
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1620 MHz
Shading Units 2560 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 6
Tensor Cores 80 No
Ray-tracing Cores 20 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 51-76 GPixel/s 52 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 78 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
2.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 65 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 14 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 132 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 3.3 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 25 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 6 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1752 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 7008 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
192 GB/s
112.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2.131
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
CUDA 8.9 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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