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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs GTX 1080 Mobile

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
GP104

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 8 months older GTX 1080 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 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 GTX 1080 Laptop over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • 36% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 8.9 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 13% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 47 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 20 dedicated RT cores
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 37% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 59K)
  • Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 67% higher memory bandwidth: 320.3 vs 192 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
vs
GTX 1080 Mobile

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
97
60
49
30
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
103
79
57
29
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
155
112
80
37
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
81
71
56
29
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
56
42
30
17
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
66
56
39
28
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
51
41
28
16
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
53
49
28
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
88
81
54
30
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 83
1080p Ultra 75 66
1440p Ultra 53 47
4K Ultra 28 25
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 7137
Solar Bay 35375 19248
Port Royal 4624 1558
Fire Strike 21909 21459
Wild Life Extreme 15492 13912
Night Raid 84848 69008
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 +37%
81436
GTX 1080 Mobile
59290
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 151.7 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 71.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 2.51 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 3.71 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 4.63 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 0.29 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 214.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 5989.1 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 +21%
14217
GTX 1080 Mobile
11760
G2D Mark 622 731
DirectX 11 129 FPS 102 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 42 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 5903 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 216 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop +338%
2567.25
GTX 1080 Mobile
585.53
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2120 & 3 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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GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
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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 +123%
15570
GTX 1080 Mobile
6985
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop +300%
27160
GTX 1080 Mobile
6791
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4050 Laptop +137%
12230
GTX 1080 Mobile
5167
Image Classification (SP) 6233 1863
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 3814
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 9767
Face Detection (HP) 30758 6946
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 49863
Text Classification (SP) 3124 1259
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 1365
Object Detection (SP) 7812 2518
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 13518
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 99268
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and GTX 1080 Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 August 15, 2016
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Pascal
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) GP104
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S -
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i7 8750H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (67th and 102nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 1556 MHz
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1733 MHz
Shading Units 2560 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 20
Tensor Cores 80 No
Ray-tracing Cores 20 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 51-76 GPixel/s 111 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 277 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop +36%
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
GTX 1080 Mobile
8.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 150 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 16 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 7.2 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 22.93 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1251 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 10008 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s
GTX 1080 Mobile +67%
320.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
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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