NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points
5925 points
460% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS
116 FPS
93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS
80 FPS
64 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
112 FPS
96 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS
61 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points
3522.98 points
1975% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points
104383 points
546% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points
98514 points
449% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz
4% slightly higher core clock speed
952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz
1455 MHz
27% 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
45 W
66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s
69.84 Gigapixels/s
283% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s
151.3 Gigatexels/s
232% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
3328
420% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
104
160% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
48
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586
84th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.

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