NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, 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 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

4358 points

312% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

94 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

63 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

90 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

49 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

2969.98 points

1649% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

85838 points

431% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

80080 points

346% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1020 MHz

2% 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 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

384 GB/s

242% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

48 Gigapixels/s

163% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

120 Gigatexels/s

163% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2560

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

263rd of 592

115th of 592

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5050 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.