NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

2615 points

147% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

64 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

32 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

45 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

25 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

1161.74 points

584% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points

58544 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

55123 points

223% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

47251 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

51045 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

53105 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1238 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1500 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

192 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

33.82 Gigapixels/s

85% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

67.65 Gigatexels/s

48% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2048

220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

170th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.