GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs RTX 2070
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070
TU106
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 4 years and 5 months older RTX RTX 2070 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 2304 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- 61% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 7.5 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2070
- Shows 9% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 58 vs 53 FPS
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Features 208 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 192 GB/s
- Achieves 20% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (97K vs 81K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 107 66 56 35 |
109 70 56 40 |
| The Witcher 3 | 117 91 67 34 |
124 100 73 38 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 167 126 88 43 |
181 132 96 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 87 79 59 32 |
92 83 64 34 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 62 52 34 20 |
65 56 41 19 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 75 68 44 30 |
79 74 50 34 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 57 45 33 17 |
64 50 36 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 61 57 34 13 |
67 63 35 15 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 98 90 62 32 |
106 98 68 36 |
| 1080p High | 92 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 75 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 53 | 58 |
| 4K Ultra | 28 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 8212 | 9074 |
| Solar Bay | 35375 | 39675 |
| Port Royal | 4624 | 5194 |
| Fire Strike | 21909 | 23208 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 15492 | 18257 |
| Night Raid | 84848 | 92357 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 141.4 img/sec | 200 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 84.1 img/sec | 106.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.07 Gpixels/sec | 3.73 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.91 Gpixels/sec | 4.57 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.85 Gpixels/sec | 4.84 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.1 Gpixels/sec | 1.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 325.9 Gpixels/sec | 452 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 11008.8 FPS | 11141.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 622 | 816 |
| DirectX 11 | 129 FPS | 130 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 60 FPS | 61 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5847 Ops/s | 6376 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-07-17 (kam) | GeekBench | 93074 |
| 📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo) | Cinebench 2024 | 8096 |
| 📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck) | GeekBench | 90032 |
| 📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan) | Cinebench 2024 | 8523 |
| 📘 2026-05-15 -> Zay | GeekBench | 89343 |
GeForce RTX 2070
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 6233 | 5244 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 16395 | 9644 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 18240 | 13716 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 30758 | 21326 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 61300 | 57284 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3124 | 1857 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4357 | 2542 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7812 | 6466 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 29192 | 22978 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 117759 | 111896 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and RTX 2070General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | February 22, 2023 | October 17, 2018 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $599 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Turing |
| GPU Codename | AD107 (GN21-X2) | TU106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX 7700S | - Radeon RX 5700 XT |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above | - Intel Core i7 9700K or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (#65th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#63rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) | 1410 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) | 1620 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 2304 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 80 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 20 | 36 |
| Tensor Cores | 80 | 288 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 20 | 36 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 12MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 51-76 GPixel/s | 104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 128-190 GTexel/s | 233 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 35-140 W (configurable) | 175 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 156 mm² | 445 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 18.9 billion | 10 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.15 MTr/mm² | 22.47 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 96-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | 7.5 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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