Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
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Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
GA107S
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX A500 Mobile 4 GB with 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 11 months newer GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 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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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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 2.8x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 19 FPS
- 73% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 47 24 19 12 |
107 66 56 35 |
| The Witcher 3 | 32 26 20 - |
117 91 67 34 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 66 41 30 12 |
167 126 88 43 |
| Far Cry 6 | 37 37 26 12 |
87 79 59 32 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 23 14 14 - |
62 52 34 20 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 35 27 19 12 |
75 68 44 30 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 18 14 11 - |
57 45 33 17 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 24 17 10 - |
61 57 34 13 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 40 35 21 11 |
98 90 62 32 |
| 1080p High | 36 | 92 |
| 1080p Ultra | 26 | 75 |
| 1440p Ultra | 19 | 53 |
| 4K Ultra | 9 | 28 |
| Margin of Error | Medium | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 3022 | 8212 |
| Solar Bay | 13710 | 35375 |
| Port Royal | 625 | 4624 |
| Fire Strike | 10265 | 21909 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 4053 | 15492 |
| Night Raid | 38312 | 84848 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 62.4 img/sec | 141.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 35.7 img/sec | 84.1 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.62 Gpixels/sec | 3.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 2.11 Gpixels/sec | 3.91 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.05 Gpixels/sec | 3.85 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.52 Gpixels/sec | 1.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 185.1 Gpixels/sec | 325.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 5502.5 FPS | 11008.8 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 411 | 622 |
| DirectX 11 | 40 FPS | 129 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 38 FPS | 60 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 2901 Ops/s | 5847 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-07-17 (kam) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 93074 |
| 📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo) | Cinebench 2024 | 8096 |
| 📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 90032 |
| 📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan) | Cinebench 2024 | 8523 |
| 📘 2026-05-15 -> Zay | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 89343 |
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) | 3298 | 6233 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 8358 | 16395 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6219 | 18240 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 14319 | 30758 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 22995 | 61300 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2226 | 3124 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3163 | 4357 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 3768 | 7812 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 12079 | 29192 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 53139 | 117759 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop and GeForce RTX 4050 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 22, 2022 | February 22, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Entry-level |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GA107S | AD107 (GN21-X2) |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX 7700S |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 12700H or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (103rd and 67th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 370-890 MHz (configurable) | 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 745-1710 MHz (configurable) | 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 80 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 20 |
| Tensor Cores | 64 | 80 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | 20 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 12MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 24-55 GPixel/s | 51-76 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 48-109 GTexel/s | 128-190 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 20-60 W (configurable) | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | 156 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 8.7 billion | 18.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 43.5 MTr/mm² | 121.15 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 12000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 64-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 | 8.6 | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 2 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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