NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Comparison

FAQ

Q: What is the average benchmark score for each GPU in the database?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile records an average benchmark score of 19,049, while the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell records 16,408. The 4050 Mobile sits at the 63rd percentile among all GPUs, whereas the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell sits at the 59th percentile.

Q: How do the two compare to their nearest rivals?

A: The RTX 4050 Mobile is effectively tied with the AMD Radeon RX 6600 (0.1% ahead) and NVIDIA Quadro K6000 (0.1% ahead), while being 0.2% behind the NVIDIA Tesla K20m. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is tied with the AMD Radeon PRO W7500 (0.0% delta), 0.3% behind the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, and 0.6% behind the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2.

Q: What memory configurations do the two cards use?

A: The RTX 4050 Mobile has 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 96-bit bus, delivering 192.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 96 GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus, delivering 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth.

Q: What are the core counts for each GPU?

A: The RTX 4050 Mobile has 2,560 shading units, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 20 RT cores, and 80 tensor cores. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 24,064 shading units, 752 TMUs, 192 ROPs, 188 RT cores, and 752 tensor cores.

Q: Which GPU has the higher boost clock?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell boosts to 2,617 MHz, significantly higher than the RTX 4050 Mobile's boost of 1,755 MHz. The base clocks are 1,590 MHz and 1,455 MHz, respectively.

Q: What is the power draw difference?

A: The RTX 4050 Mobile has a TDP of 50 W and uses no power connectors, while the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has a TDP of 600 W and requires a single 16-pin connector with a suggested power supply of 1,000 W.

The Verdict

The data divides these two GPUs by mission, not by raw score. The RTX 4050 Mobile is a low-power, portable part with a 50 W TDP and an IGP slot width, designed for laptops where efficiency and compactness matter. Its average score of 19,049 places it higher in the percentile ranking (63rd) than the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (59th), but that score comes from a completely different benchmark set: the 4050 Mobile is tested across Geekbench and Passmark suites, while the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has only a single 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 result.

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is a dual-slot, 600 W workstation monster with 96 GB of GDDR7 memory and 126.0 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. It is built for massive datasets, ray tracing workloads, and professional rendering, where the 4050 Mobile's 6 GB frame buffer would be immediately exhausted. The verdict is straightforward: pick the RTX 4050 Mobile for mobile, power-constrained systems that need solid general-purpose performance. Pick the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell for desktop workstations that demand maximum graphics memory, compute throughput, and PCIe 5.0 bandwidth, and where 600 W of power is acceptable.

Neither card is a substitute for the other. The 4050 Mobile wins on portability and aggregate benchmark standing; the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell wins on every absolute hardware specification that matters for professional workloads. The database shows no direct head-to-head benchmark overlap, so the choice rests on the workload profile, not on a single comparable score.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The database records no shared benchmark tests between the two GPUs, so a direct score-for-score comparison is not possible. Instead, the available data allows an indirect comparison through their nearest rivals and their respective benchmark suites.

The RTX 4050 Mobile's strongest result is in Geekbench Vulkan, where it scores 75,235, and Geekbench OpenCL, where it scores 74,748. These numbers indicate strong compute performance for a mobile part. In Passmark G3D, it scores 14,423, and in Passmark GPU Compute it scores 5,947. The lower DirectX scores (79 in DX10, 130 in DX11, 61 in DX12, 184 in DX9) suggest that legacy API workloads are not its primary strength, but the G2D score of 633 shows competent 2D performance.

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's only recorded benchmark is the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test, where it scores 16,408. That score places it within 0.6% of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2, which scores 16,504, and 0.3% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, which scores 16,361. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon PRO W7500, scores 16,415, a 0.0% delta. This single result indicates that the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is competitive with mid-range desktop GPUs in a modern DX12 workload, despite being a workstation-class card.

Given the lack of overlap, the "biggest win" for the RTX 4050 Mobile is its average score of 19,049, which is 16.1% higher than the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's 16,408. However, that comparison is misleading because the 4050 Mobile's average includes multiple lightweight benchmarks (Passmark DX9, G2D) that inflate its aggregate. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's single DX12 benchmark is a far more demanding test. The practical interpretation: the 4050 Mobile dominates in general-purpose and legacy API benchmarks, while the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is built for a specific, heavy DX12 workload where it holds its own against desktop rivals.

Specification Differences

The specification gap between these two GPUs is enormous, and the database documents every major difference.

• Memory: The RTX 4050 Mobile has 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 96-bit bus with 192.0 GB/s bandwidth. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 96 GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus with 1.79 TB/s bandwidth. That is a 16x increase in capacity and roughly a 9.3x increase in bandwidth.
• Core configuration: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 24,064 shading units versus 2,560 on the 4050 Mobile, 752 TMUs versus 80, 192 ROPs versus 48, 188 RT cores versus 20, and 752 tensor cores versus 80. In every category, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has between 4x and 9.4x the resources.
• Clocks: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell runs at a 1,590 MHz base clock and 2,617 MHz boost, versus 1,455 MHz base and 1,755 MHz boost on the 4050 Mobile. Memory clocks differ as well: 1,750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective on the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell versus 2,000 MHz with 16 Gbps effective on the 4050 Mobile.
• Compute rates: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell delivers 126.0 TFLOPS FP32 and FP16, versus 8.986 TFLOPS on the 4050 Mobile. Pixel rate is 502.5 GPixel/s versus 84.24 GPixel/s; texture rate is 1,968.0 GTexel/s versus 140.4 GTexel/s.
• Power and physical: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has a 600 W TDP, dual-slot width, one 16-pin connector, and a suggested PSU of 1,000 W. The RTX 4050 Mobile has a 50 W TDP, IGP slot width, and no power connectors.
• Bus and outputs: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell uses PCIe 5.0 x16 and has 4x DisplayPort 2.1b outputs. The RTX 4050 Mobile uses PCIe 4.0 x8 and its display outputs are portable-device dependent.
• Dimensions: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell measures 304 mm in length, 137 mm in height, and 40 mm in width. The RTX 4050 Mobile has no recorded dimensions in the database.
• Release date: The RTX 4050 Mobile was released on 2023-01-02, while the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell was released on 2025-03-17.

Architecture Differences

Both GPUs are built on a 5 nm process at TSMC, but the architectures diverge sharply. The RTX 4050 Mobile uses the AD107 chip with an Ada Lovelace architecture, featuring 18,900 million transistors on a 159 mm² die, resulting in a transistor density of 118.9M per mm². The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell uses the GB202 chip with a Blackwell 2.0 architecture, featuring 92,200 million transistors on a 750 mm² die, resulting in a transistor density of 122.9M per mm².

The transistor density difference is modest (122.9M versus 118.9M per mm²), but the absolute transistor count is nearly 5x higher on the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell. This reflects the massive die size difference: 750 mm² versus 159 mm². The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is a full-size workstation chip, while the AD107 in the 4050 Mobile is a small, power-efficient mobile chip.

Architecturally, both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, so API feature support is identical. The RT core and tensor core counts differ dramatically (188 RT cores and 752 tensor cores on the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell versus 20 RT cores and 80 tensor cores on the 4050 Mobile), which means the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has far greater ray tracing and AI acceleration capacity. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell also belongs to the "Blackwell PRO W (x000)" generation, while the 4050 Mobile belongs to the "GeForce 40 Mobile" generation. The predecessor of the 4050 Mobile is the GeForce 30 Mobile series, and its successor is the GeForce 50 Mobile series. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's predecessor is Workstation Ada, with no successor listed.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 4050 Mobile wins in scenarios defined by portability and low power. Its 50 W TDP and IGP form factor make it suitable for thin-and-light laptops where cooling and battery life are constrained. The 6 GB GDDR6 memory and 192.0 GB/s bandwidth are adequate for 1080p gaming and general GPU compute tasks. Its average benchmark score of 19,049, driven by strong Geekbench OpenCL (74,748) and Vulkan (75,235) results, indicates solid compute performance for a mobile chip. The 4050 Mobile also holds a higher percentile rank (63rd) among all GPUs.

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell wins in every scenario that demands extreme memory capacity, raw compute throughput, or professional graphics features. Its 96 GB of GDDR7 memory is 16 times larger than the 4050 Mobile's, making it suitable for large-scale 3D rendering, scientific simulation, AI model training, and datasets that would overflow a 6 GB frame buffer. The 126.0 TFLOPS FP32 compute is 14 times higher than the 4050 Mobile's 8.986 TFLOPS. The 1.79 TB/s bandwidth and 512-bit bus support massively parallel workloads. The 188 RT cores and 752 tensor cores provide substantial ray tracing and AI acceleration. The PCIe 5.0 x16 interface and 4x DisplayPort 2.1b outputs make it a professional workstation card for multi-monitor setups.

The data also shows the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is competitive with desktop GPUs in its single recorded DX12 benchmark, matching the AMD Radeon PRO W7500 exactly (0.0% delta) and trailing the RTX 5090 D V2 by only 0.6%. This suggests it can handle modern gaming or DX12 workloads when pressed into service, though its primary domain is professional content creation. The RTX 4050 Mobile, by contrast, has no single benchmark that approaches the absolute compute levels of the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell; its wins are in aggregate score and portability, not in peak capability.