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AMD Radeon 880M vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Radeon 880M
VS
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AMD Radeon 880M
Strix Point
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 880M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older 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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  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 RTX 4050 Mobile over Radeon 880M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 880M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.9x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 18 FPS
  • 2.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 4.5 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 6 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 2.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 37K)
  • Has 3.3x more shading units (2560 vs 768)
  • Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 880M
vs
RTX 4050 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
55
29
24
13
107
66
56
35
The Witcher 3
31
26
16
-
117
91
67
34
Counter-Strike 2
49
30
23
10
167
126
88
43
Far Cry 6
41
37
24
12
87
79
59
32
Hogwarts Legacy
22
17
13
-
62
52
34
20
CoD: Modern Warfare III
38
33
21
13
75
68
44
30
Ghost of Tsushima
20
15
12
-
57
45
33
17
Cyberpunk 2077
22
21
11
-
61
57
34
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
40
31
21
9
98
90
62
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 35 92
1080p Ultra 27 75
1440p Ultra 18 53
4K Ultra 9 28
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
Radeon 880M
3006
RTX 4050 Laptop +163%
7909
Time Spy 3098 8212
Solar Bay 14223 35375
Port Royal 1413 4624
Fire Strike 8565 21909
Wild Life Extreme 6299 15492
Night Raid 37836 84848
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 880M
37347
RTX 4050 Laptop +118%
81436
Background Blur 72 img/sec 141.4 img/sec
Face Detection 35.7 img/sec 84.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.04 Gpixels/sec 3.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.33 Gpixels/sec 3.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.17 Gpixels/sec 3.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.44 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 115.5 Gpixels/sec 325.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4880.8 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
Radeon 880M
7595
RTX 4050 Laptop +87%
14217
G2D Mark 969 622
DirectX 11 73 FPS 129 FPS
DirectX 12 32 FPS 60 FPS
GPU Compute 3714 Ops/s 5847 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 737 & 14311 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 880M
274.57
RTX 4050 Laptop +835%
2567.25
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 20 & 2120 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 880M
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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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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
Radeon 880M
8534
RTX 4050 Laptop +82%
15570
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 880M
12638
RTX 4050 Laptop +115%
27160
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 880M
6209
RTX 4050 Laptop +97%
12230
Image Classification (SP) 3202 6233
Image Segmentation (HP) 5252 16395
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9782 18240
Face Detection (HP) 11315 30758
Pose Estimation (Q) 30704 61300
Text Classification (SP) 2351 3124
Machine Translation (HP) 4339 4357
Object Detection (SP) 2843 7812
Depth Estimation (Q) 14243 29192
Style Transfer (SP) 69169 117759
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 880M and GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released June 3, 2024 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Strix Point AD107 (GN21-X2)
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130V - Radeon RX 7700S
Successor - Radeon 8050S - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 9 465
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 365		 -
Laptop GPU ranking (88th and 67th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 1140-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1605-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 20
Tensor Cores No 80
Ray-tracing Cores 12 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 46 GPixel/s 51-76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 139 GTexel/s 128-190 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 880M
4.5 TFLOPS
RTX 4050 Laptop +169%
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 15 W 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 233 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 34 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 6 GB
Memory Clock - 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 16000 Mbps
Bus - 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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