NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 206.47
$ 43.52 slightly less expensive
$ 249.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points
5507 points
278% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS
135 FPS
103 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS
66 FPS
44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS
94 FPS
72 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
52 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points
2880.41 points
1239% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points
97092 points
350% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points
91845 points
354% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz
2317 MHz
79% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz
2572 MHz
84% significantly 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
320 GB/s
185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
73% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s
82.3 Gigapixels/s
84% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s
205.8 Gigatexels/s
207% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
2560
233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
80
66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586
91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly 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 5050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.

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