NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 2662.01 significantly less expensive

$ 2832.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

2012 points

73% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

52 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

30 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

30 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

19 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

1534.25 points

799% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

70456 points

309% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

61102 points

228% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

54040 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

62696 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

58257 points

239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

945 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

6% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586

208th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Quadro RTX 3000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Quadro RTX 3000 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro RTX 3000 has significantly more memory with 6 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 Quadro RTX 3000 at 80 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro RTX 3000 over the GeForce GTX 1050.