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AMD Radeon RX 7700S vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Radeon RX 7700S
VS
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AMD Radeon RX 7700S
Navi 33
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7700S 8 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 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 RX 7700S
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7700S
  • Performs slightly better (up to 18%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 49% higher maximum theoretical performance (18 vs 12.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 19% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 63 vs 53 FPS
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 50% higher memory bandwidth: 288 vs 192 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 7700S
vs
RTX 4050 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
136
78
63
41
107
66
56
35
The Witcher 3
122
101
71
39
117
91
67
34
Counter-Strike 2
196
132
93
49
167
126
88
43
Far Cry 6
107
96
70
37
87
79
59
32
Hogwarts Legacy
74
60
44
25
62
52
34
20
CoD: Modern Warfare III
96
91
62
37
75
68
44
30
Ghost of Tsushima
80
63
45
22
57
45
33
17
Cyberpunk 2077
75
67
37
17
61
57
34
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
131
116
78
39
98
90
62
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 92
1080p Ultra 89 75
1440p Ultra 63 53
4K Ultra 34 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
RX 7700S +18%
9372
RTX 4050 Laptop
7909
Time Spy 10274 8212
Solar Bay 41160 35375
Port Royal 5325 4624
Fire Strike 28639 21909
Wild Life Extreme 18064 15492
Night Raid 101381 84848
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7700S
75137
RTX 4050 Laptop +8%
81436
Background Blur 183.6 img/sec 141.4 img/sec
Face Detection 91.6 img/sec 84.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.68 Gpixels/sec 3.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.95 Gpixels/sec 3.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.39 Gpixels/sec 3.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.84 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 244.3 Gpixels/sec 325.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9216.4 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
RX 7700S +9%
15448
RTX 4050 Laptop
14217
G2D Mark 760 622
DirectX 11 136 FPS 129 FPS
DirectX 12 67 FPS 60 FPS
GPU Compute 6991 Ops/s 5847 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 385 & 14311 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7700S
986.96
RTX 4050 Laptop +160%
2567.25
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 49 & 2120 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7700S
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-17 (Kosta_Macarov)Steel Nomad Light10117
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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
RX 7700S +17%
18185
RTX 4050 Laptop
15570
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7700S
23280
RTX 4050 Laptop +17%
27160
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7700S +21%
14842
RTX 4050 Laptop
12230
Image Classification (SP) 8076 6233
Image Segmentation (HP) 10203 16395
Image Super Resolution (Q) 22390 18240
Face Detection (HP) 29334 30758
Pose Estimation (Q) 84068 61300
Text Classification (SP) 3066 3124
Machine Translation (HP) 4439 4357
Object Detection (SP) 7062 7812
Depth Estimation (Q) 38916 29192
Style Transfer (SP) 160714 117759
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7700S and GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 4, 2023 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 33 AD107 (GN21-X2)
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop - Radeon RX 7700S
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (47th and 67th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1500 MHz 1140-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1840-2200 MHz (configurable) 1605-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 20
Tensor Cores - 80
Ray-tracing Cores 32 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 118-141 GPixel/s 51-76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 236-282 GTexel/s 128-190 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7700S +49%
15.1-18 TFLOPS
RTX 4050 Laptop
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 75-100 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 5 nm
Die Size 204 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 13.3 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 65.2 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 96-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7700S +50%
288 GB/s
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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