Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada) vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX 1000 Mobile (Ada) with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year older GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 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

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

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 High 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
Solar Bay - 35375
Port Royal - 4624
Fire Strike - 21909
Wild Life Extreme - 15492
Night Raid - 84848
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 123.8 img/sec 141.4 img/sec
Face Detection 74.4 img/sec 84.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.88 Gpixels/sec 3.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.76 Gpixels/sec 3.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.68 Gpixels/sec 3.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.97 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 290 Gpixels/sec 325.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9455.5 FPS 11008.8 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 562 622
DirectX 11 110 FPS 129 FPS
DirectX 12 63 FPS 60 FPS
GPU Compute 5295 Ops/s 5847 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]687 & 14311 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2568.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10]29 & 2080 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada)
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)GeekBench93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)GeekBench90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekBench89343

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) 5554 6233
Image Segmentation (HP) 11873 16395
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15799 18240
Face Detection (HP) 25103 30758
Pose Estimation (Q) 51054 61300
Text Classification (SP) 2761 3124
Machine Translation (HP) 3137 4357
Object Detection (SP) 6750 7812
Depth Estimation (Q) 24450 29192
Style Transfer (SP) 101447 117759
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada) and GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 26, 2024 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename AD107 AD107 (GN21-X2)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7700S
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (47th and 65th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock - 1140-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1245-2360 MHz (configurable) 1605-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 20
Tensor Cores 80 80
Ray-tracing Cores 20 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 60-113 GPixel/s 51-76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 100-189 GTexel/s 128-190 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
6.4-12.1 TFLOPS
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 118.87 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 95°C -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 96-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 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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