NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile vs NVIDIA Tesla P4 Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The database contains one directly comparable workload between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile and the NVIDIA Tesla P4: the Geekbench OpenCL test. The results are decisive. The RTX 5050 Mobile scores 84,171, while the Tesla P4 scores 34,947. That represents a 140.9% advantage for the newer mobile part. In practical terms, the RTX 5050 Mobile delivers more than double the raw compute throughput in this OpenCL workload, a gap that dwarfs typical generational improvements and signals a fundamental shift in capability between these two designs.

Context from the broader database reinforces this dominance. The RTX 5050 Mobile's average benchmark score across all recorded tests is 43,268, placing it in the 83rd percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals in the database include the NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB at 43,262 (a 0% delta), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER at 43,223 (0.1% ahead of the 5050), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile at 43,667 (0.9% ahead). This clustering shows the RTX 5050 Mobile sitting in a performance tier populated by much larger and more power-hungry desktop cards. The Tesla P4, by contrast, averages 37,628 across its recorded benchmarks, landing in the 81st percentile. Its nearest rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 at 37,648 (0.1% ahead), the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 at 37,507 (0.3% behind), and the AMD Radeon PRO W6400 at 37,157 (1.3% behind). The Tesla P4 is competitive with mid-range desktop parts from several generations, but it is not in the same league as the RTX 5050 Mobile.

The head-to-head delta of 140.9% is striking because both cards share the same 8 GB memory capacity and the same 2560 shading units. Equal shader counts do not translate into equal performance here; the architectural efficiency difference is enormous. The RTX 5050 Mobile also has a second benchmark in its record, the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test, where it scores 2365, though no comparable Tesla P4 result exists in the database for that workload. The Tesla P4 does have a Geekbench Vulkan score of 40,309, which is higher than its OpenCL result of 34,947 but still far below the RTX 5050 Mobile's OpenCL figure. The data consistently points in one direction: the RTX 5050 Mobile is the faster GPU by a wide margin.

Architecture Differences

The two GPUs represent opposite ends of NVIDIA's design philosophy across nearly a decade. The RTX 5050 Mobile uses the GB207 chip built on Blackwell 2.0 architecture, fabricated on a 5 nm process at TSMC. The Tesla P4 uses the GP104 chip with the much older Pascal architecture, fabricated on a 16 nm process, also at TSMC. The process node difference alone is dramatic: 5 nm versus 16 nm. This explains why the RTX 5050 Mobile packs 16,900 million transistors onto a 149 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 113.4 million per square millimeter. The Tesla P4 contains only 7,200 million transistors spread across a much larger 314 mm² die, giving it a density of just 22.9 million per square millimeter. The RTX 5050 Mobile crams more than double the transistors into less than half the silicon area.

Memory technology also diverges sharply. The RTX 5050 Mobile uses 8 GB of GDDR7 on a 128-bit bus, producing 384.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The Tesla P4 uses 8 GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus, producing 192.3 GB/s. The newer card achieves twice the bandwidth despite half the bus width, evidence of the jump from GDDR5 to GDDR7 signaling rates. Effective memory speed is 24 Gbps on the RTX 5050 Mobile versus 6 Gbps on the Tesla P4.

Compute resources tell a more nuanced story. Both cards have 2560 shading units, but the RTX 5050 Mobile has only 80 texture mapping units and 32 render output units, while the Tesla P4 has 160 TMUs and 64 ROPs. The Tesla P4's higher texture and pixel throughput reflect its wider back-end: 178.2 GTexel/s and 71.30 GPixel/s versus 120.0 GTexel/s and 48.00 GPixel/s for the RTX 5050 Mobile. Yet the RTX 5050 Mobile wins decisively in floating-point performance: 7.680 TFLOPS FP32 versus 5.704 TFLOPS. The gap becomes absurd in FP16: the RTX 5050 Mobile achieves 7.680 TFLOPS with a 1:1 ratio to FP32, while the Tesla P4 manages only 89.12 GFLOPS with a 1:64 ratio. That is a difference of two orders of magnitude in half-precision throughput.

Feature support further separates the two. The RTX 5050 Mobile includes 20 ray tracing cores and 80 tensor cores, enabling hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI workloads. The Tesla P4 has no ray tracing cores and no tensor cores at all. The RTX 5050 Mobile supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), while the Tesla P4 is limited to DirectX 12 (12_1). Both support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4, but the API ceiling for modern graphics features is much higher on the Blackwell part. Clock speeds also differ: the RTX 5050 Mobile runs at a 1020 MHz base and 1500 MHz boost, while the Tesla P4 runs at 886 MHz base and 1114 MHz boost. Even with lower peak clocks, the newer architecture delivers far more work per cycle.

The Verdict

The data is unambiguous. The RTX 5050 Mobile outperforms the Tesla P4 by 140.9% in the only shared benchmark, and its average benchmark score of 43,268 versus 37,628 places it in a higher performance percentile (83rd versus 81st). The RTX 5050 Mobile is the faster GPU for compute, for modern graphics workloads, and for AI-related tasks given its tensor cores. The Tesla P4 retains advantages only in specific legacy metrics: texture fill rate (178.2 GTexel/s versus 120.0 GTexel/s), pixel fill rate (71.30 GPixel/s versus 48.00 GPixel/s), and a wider 256-bit memory bus. Those wins do not translate into overall performance superiority, as the OpenCL score shows.

The RTX 5050 Mobile also carries a lower power envelope at 50 W TDP versus 75 W for the Tesla P4, despite delivering dramatically higher compute throughput. The Tesla P4 does require a 250 W suggested PSU according to the database, while the RTX 5050 Mobile has no suggested PSU listed. The Tesla P4 is a single-slot card with no display outputs, designed for server inference. The RTX 5050 Mobile is an integrated mobile part (IGP slot width) with display outputs described as portable device dependent. These are different tools for different environments, but on pure performance, the RTX 5050 Mobile wins every meaningful comparison in the recorded data.

Specification Differences

The two GPUs differ across nearly every major specification category. The RTX 5050 Mobile uses the GB207 chip on Blackwell 2.0 architecture, while the Tesla P4 uses GP104 on Pascal. Process nodes are 5 nm versus 16 nm, both TSMC. Transistor counts are 16,900 million versus 7,200 million, with die sizes of 149 mm² versus 314 mm². Density is 113.4M per mm² versus 22.9M per mm².

Clock speeds: the RTX 5050 Mobile runs at 1020 MHz base and 1500 MHz boost; the Tesla P4 runs at 886 MHz base and 1114 MHz boost. Memory: the RTX 5050 Mobile uses 8 GB GDDR7 at 1500 MHz (24 Gbps effective) on a 128-bit bus with 384.0 GB/s bandwidth; the Tesla P4 uses 8 GB GDDR5 at 1502 MHz (6 Gbps effective) on a 256-bit bus with 192.3 GB/s bandwidth. Texture units are 80 versus 160, ROPs are 32 versus 64. The RTX 5050 Mobile has 20 ray tracing cores and 80 tensor cores; the Tesla P4 has none of either.

Pixel rate is 48.00 GPixel/s versus 71.30 GPixel/s. Texture rate is 120.0 GTexel/s versus 178.2 GTexel/s. FP32 is 7.680 TFLOPS versus 5.704 TFLOPS. FP16 is 7.680 TFLOPS (1:1) versus 89.12 GFLOPS (1:64). TDP is 50 W versus 75 W. The RTX 5050 Mobile is IGP slot width with no power connectors; the Tesla P4 is single-slot with no power connectors but a 250 W suggested PSU. Bus interface is PCIe 5.0 x16 versus PCIe 3.0 x16. Display outputs are portable device dependent versus no outputs. The Tesla P4 is 168 mm (6.6 inches) long; the RTX 5050 Mobile has no recorded dimensions. DirectX support is 12 Ultimate (12_2) versus 12 (12_1). Production status is Active versus End-of-life. Release dates are 2025-06-23 versus 2016-09-12.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU is faster in OpenCL?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile scores 84,171 in Geekbench OpenCL versus 34,947 for the NVIDIA Tesla P4, a 140.9% advantage for the RTX 5050 Mobile.

Q: Do both cards have the same amount of memory?

A: Yes, both have 8 GB, but the RTX 5050 Mobile uses GDDR7 with 384.0 GB/s bandwidth on a 128-bit bus, while the Tesla P4 uses GDDR5 with 192.3 GB/s bandwidth on a 256-bit bus.

Q: Does the Tesla P4 support ray tracing?

A: No. The Tesla P4 has no ray tracing cores and no tensor cores. The RTX 5050 Mobile includes 20 ray tracing cores and 80 tensor cores.

Q: Which GPU has higher FP32 compute?

A: The RTX 5050 Mobile delivers 7.680 TFLOPS FP32 compared to 5.704 TFLOPS for the Tesla P4. In FP16, the difference is far larger: 7.680 TFLOPS versus 89.12 GFLOPS.

Q: What are the power requirements?

A: The RTX 5050 Mobile has a 50 W TDP, while the Tesla P4 has a 75 W TDP. The Tesla P4 lists a 250 W suggested PSU; the RTX 5050 Mobile has no suggested PSU recorded.

Q: Which GPU is still in production?

A: The RTX 5050 Mobile is listed as Active, released 2025-06-23. The Tesla P4 is End-of-life, released 2016-09-12, with the predecessor Tesla Maxwell and successor Tesla Volta.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 5050 Mobile wins in the only head-to-head benchmark recorded, Geekbench OpenCL, by 140.9%. It also wins on average benchmark score (43,268 versus 37,628), percentile ranking (83rd versus 81st), FP32 compute (7.680 TFLOPS versus 5.704 TFLOPS), FP16 compute (7.680 TFLOPS versus 89.12 GFLOPS), memory bandwidth (384.0 GB/s versus 192.3 GB/s), and power efficiency (50 W TDP versus 75 W TDP for substantially more performance). Its tensor cores enable AI acceleration that the Tesla P4 cannot perform in hardware, and its DirectX 12 Ultimate support covers modern graphics features the Pascal card lacks.

The Tesla P4 wins on texture fill rate (178.2 GTexel/s versus 120.0 GTexel/s) and pixel fill rate (71.30 GPixel/s versus 48.00 GPixel/s), driven by its higher TMU and ROP counts. It also has a wider memory bus (256-bit versus 128-bit) and a longer physical footprint as a single-slot card with a recorded 168 mm length. Its 250 W suggested PSU indicates it was designed for straightforward server installation. For workloads that are fill-rate bound and do not require modern feature support, the Tesla P4 retains a narrow niche. For everything else, the RTX 5050 Mobile is the clear choice based on the recorded data.