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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs 2080 Mobile

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
TU104 (N18E-G3)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 4 years and 1 month older RTX 2080 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 2944 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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2080 Laptop over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • 29% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 9.4 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
  • Performs better (up to 23%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 23% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 65 vs 53 FPS
  • Features 288 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 192 GB/s
  • Achieves 43% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (116K vs 81K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
vs
RTX 2080 Mobile

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
119
73
64
45
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
134
110
81
41
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
197
147
105
54
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
103
91
74
39
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
74
59
45
25
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
90
82
57
37
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
69
54
42
24
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
80
68
40
20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
120
110
80
43
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 110
1080p Ultra 75 88
1440p Ultra 53 65
4K Ultra 28 36
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 10052
Solar Bay 35375 44509
Port Royal 4624 6007
Fire Strike 21909 25925
Wild Life Extreme 15492 20472
Night Raid 84848 96043
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
81436
RTX 2080 Mobile +43%
116500
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 226 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 122.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 4.52 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 5.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 6.45 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 1.26 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 14128.8 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 622 804
DirectX 11 129 FPS 139 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 53 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 6463 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 199 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop +66%
2567.25
RTX 2080 Mobile
1547.65
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2120 & 43 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 RTX 2080 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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 6233 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 -
Face Detection (HP) 30758 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 -
Text Classification (SP) 3124 -
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 -
Object Detection (SP) 7812 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 -
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and 2080 Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 29, 2019
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) TU104 (N18E-G3)
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 9750H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (67th and 52nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 1380 MHz
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1590 MHz
Shading Units 2560 2944
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 46
Tensor Cores 80 368
Ray-tracing Cores 20 46
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 102 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 293 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop +29%
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
RTX 2080 Mobile
9.4 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 12 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 545 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 13.6 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 24.95 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s
RTX 2080 Mobile +100%
384 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
CUDA 8.9 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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