NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 371.96 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

12174 points

950% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

289 FPS

263 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

141 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

206 FPS

189 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

114 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

3862 points

86% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

5402.96 points

3067% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

168368 points

837% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

158623 points

824% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

2190 MHz

61% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

2430 MHz

67% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

12 GiB

499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

360 GB/s

221% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

300% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

317% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

835% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

1771% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

7168

1019% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

459% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2023 April

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 4070 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050.