GeForce GTX 970M and GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M
GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GM204
AD107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
January 2023
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1605 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1280
-
Floating-point performance
2,657 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
4 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
83.04
128.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
120 GB/s
168.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.9
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-