NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU)
vs
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) and the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) and has 2560 texture shaders and 20 execution units.

PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 is based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 8 CU), which has 512 shaders and 8 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) GPU PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 8 CU)
AD107 GPU Chip Baffin LE
Ada Lovelace Architecture GCN 4
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
2560 Shader 512
48 Render Output Units 16
80 Texture Units 32
20 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
96 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) clocks in the base with up to 2.070 GHz. The base frequency of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 is 1.019 GHz.

2.070 GHz Base Clock 1.019 GHz
2.355 GHz Boost Clock 1.071 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
No Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is 110 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 has a TDP of 50 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

110 W TDP 50 W
-- TDP (up) --
Unknown Tjunction max 80 °C
PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) has a total of 0 -- fans.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

-- Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
-- Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU).

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
-- DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 is 5120x2880 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is -- long, -- high and -- wide.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 is 152 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

-- Length 152 mm
-- Height 111 mm
-- Width 38 mm
-- Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (Laptop GPU) was released in Q1/2023 at a price of --.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 was introduced in Q4/2017 at a price of 79 $.

-- Part-no AXRX 550 2GBD5-DH
Q1/2023 Release date Q4/2017
-- Launch Price 79 $
4 nm Structure size 14 nm
-- Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

2560x1440 (1440p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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