NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Price

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$ 206.47

$ 2559.26 significantly less expensive

$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

42789 points

2838% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

1019 FPS

988 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

503 FPS

482 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

740 FPS

718 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

425 FPS

408 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

14480 points

518% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

14992.38 points

6871% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

383325 points

1680% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

380401 points

1783% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

2017 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

2407 MHz

72% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

32 GiB

700% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

666% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

851% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

21760

2733% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

680

1316% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

450% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2025 January

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5090 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.