NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 100W vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M GDDR5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 100W
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M GDDR5
2560 Shaders
6GB GDDR6
2280MHz
640 Shaders
2GB GDDR5
914MHz
FP32
11.67 TFLOPS
FP32
1.17 TFLOPS
FP16
11.67 TFLOPS
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Form Factor
Soldered
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Form Factor
Soldered
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TDP
100W
TDP
Unknown
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GB5 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB5 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
0%
OCT 2020.1 N/A
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OCT 2020.1 N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell
Family
GeForce 40
Family
GeForce 900
Codename
NV187
AD107
Variant
GN21-X2
Codename
NV117
GM107
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Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
2/22/2023
Release Date
3/12/2015
Foundry
TSMC
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
4N
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Fabrication Node
28nm
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Die Size
159 mm²
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Die Size
148 mm²
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Transistor Count
18.9 Billion
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Transistor Count
1.9 Billion
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Transistor Density
118.87M/mm²
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Transistor Density
12.64M/mm²
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Form
Soldered
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
2560 Shaders
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Shading Units
640 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
80 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
40 TMUs
Render Output Units
32 ROPs
Render Output Units
16 ROPs
Tensor Cores
80 T-Cores
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Ray-Tracing Cores
20 RT-Cores
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Streaming Multiprocessors
20 SMs
Streaming Multiprocessors
5 SMs
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Graphics Processing Clusters
2 GPCs
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2000MHz Base
2280MHz
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914MHz
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FP16
11.67 TFLOPS
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FP32
11.67 TFLOPS
FP32
1.17 TFLOPS
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FP64
0.18 TFLOPS
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FP64
0.04 TFLOPS
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Ray Tracing
27 TOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
72.96 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
14.624 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
182.4 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
36.56 GTexel/s
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L1
64KB/SM Tex
128KB/SM
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L1
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64KB/SM
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L2
12MB Shared
L2
2MB Shared
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6GB
GDDR6
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2GB
GDDR5
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Bus Width
96Bit
Bus Width
128Bit
Clock
2000MHz
Transfer Rate
16GT/s
Bandwidth
192GB/s
Clock
1250MHz
Transfer Rate
5GT/s
Bandwidth
80GB/s
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TDP
100W
TDP
Unknown
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No Ports
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No Ports
Max Resolution
7680x4320
Max Resolution
4096x2304
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
30Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
4
Multi Monitor Support
2
Content Protection
HDCP 2.3
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Model
NVENC 8
Model
NVENC 2
Codec
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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AV1
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Codec
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AVC (H.264)
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Model
NVDEC 5
Model
NVDEC 1
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
VP8
VP9
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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AV1
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Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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AVC (H.264)
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Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_3
Direct X
12
Direct 3D
11_0
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
Shader Model
6.7
CUDA
8.9
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PureVideo HD
VP12
VDPAU
Feature Set L
Shader Model
6.7
CUDA
5.0
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PureVideo HD
VP6
VDPAU
Feature Set E
Not a Card
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Not a Card
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PCIe Version
4.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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