NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB, 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

1159 points

5387 points

364% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

124 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

70 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

84 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

56 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

8047 points

287% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

1574.05 points

822% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

104025 points

504% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

87150 points

369% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

65188 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

90092 points

401% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

82332 points

379% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

84% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

1095 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

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

20% slightly lower TDP

90 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

70.08 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

201.5 Gigatexels/s

246% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

6.45 TFLOPS

246% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2944

360% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

360% 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

253rd of 586

94th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2019 January

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly 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 GTX 1050 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q at 90 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050.