NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 169.99
$ 949.21 significantly less expensive
$ 1119.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
24070 points
1976% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
559 FPS
533 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
276 FPS
258 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
406 FPS
388 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
225 FPS
211 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points
8762 points
322% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
9133.30 points
5254% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
267906 points
1391% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
257198 points
1398% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz
2295 MHz
69% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz
2617 MHz
79% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
16 GiB
700% 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
960 GB/s
756% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
380% significantly lower TDP
360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s
293.1 Gigapixels/s
529% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
879.3 Gigatexels/s
1410% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
2922% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
10752
1580% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
336
740% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
112
250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586
4th 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
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce RTX 5080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 5080 has significantly more memory with 16 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 5080 at 360 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 is better than the GeForce GTX 1050.

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