NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 1380.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1549.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

13991 points

1107% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

333 FPS

307 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

169 FPS

151 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

241 FPS

223 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

134 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

19931 points

860% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

5820.93 points

3312% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

238123 points

1283% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

204921 points

1003% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

138859 points

673% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

194465 points

982% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

179816 points

947% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

1400 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

1695 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

24 GiB

1100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

735% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

366% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

307% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

855% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

1810% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

10496

1539% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

720% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586

25th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

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 3090 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 has a slightly 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 RTX 3090 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050.