NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 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

1882 points

78% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

49 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

24 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

33 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

18 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

697.32 points

310% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

40962 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

37410 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1537 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

49.18 Gigapixels/s

169% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

98.37 Gigatexels/s

115% 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

216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2022 March

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 RTX A500 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the RTX A500 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 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. Despite this, the RTX A500 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A500 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.