Nvidia RTX 4050 laptop GPU leak suggests it might be here sooner than you think

Nvidia’s RTX 4050 graphics card for laptops is apparently incoming, or at least what appears to be the mobile GPU has been dug up on Twitter.

As Tom’s hardware (opens in new tab) spotted, the RTX 4050 was seen in benchmarks as posted by Benchleaks on Twitter.

The PugetBench results are for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro laptop listed as having an Intel Core i7-13700H CPU alongside an RTX 4050 notebook GPU (plus 16GB of system RAM).

As always, we shouldn’t get carried away with online leaks, so proceed with an appropriately cautious head on skeptical shoulders – but this is still an exciting potential glimpse of what a more affordable Lovelace laptop GPU could be.

What result does the RTX 4050 laptop GPU achieve? That would be an overall score of 1,124 with 57.4 GPU points in PugetBench with Premiere Pro 22.6.2, compared to 1,009 points and 48.9 GPU points for a Dell XPS 15 model with a Core i7 12700H processor and RTX 3050 laptop graphics card.

Analysis: RTX 4050 goodness is just around the corner?

So in terms of performance, we’re looking at a theoretical 18% (or so) faster RTX 4050 GPU compared to the RTX 3050, but of course we apply heavy spice to each leaked benchmark, and remember that the RTX 4050 probably will (well, it will) perform better than this when the graphics card is actually in laptops (with release drivers).

While jumping to conclusions about speed is a prudent affair at this point, what’s really interesting here is that the RTX 4050 showed up at all. So far we’ve only seen the heavy hitters of Nvidia’s next-gen Lovelace range – and desktop cards at that – but now we suddenly witnessed a juicy RTX 4060 leak yesterday, and now the RTX 4050 has moved up.

Now the desktop RTX 4060 is still a long way off by all accounts – probably half a year from now – but with this actual sighting of the RTX 4050 (assuming it’s real) in a test laptop, we can hope that this particular Lovelace GPU isn’t far to get out.

Indeed, we could cross our fingers that this is a sign that Nvidia is about to unveil the RTX 4050, and perhaps other next-gen laptop GPUs, at CES 2023 in January. After all, the theory is that we’ll be seeing mobile Intel Raptor Lake processors very soon, and a twin with RTX 40-series laptop GPUs will make for some seriously powerful gaming laptops – these are definitely future models to watch, like we have noted before.