NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile sales 3 January 2017. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Pascal architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4000 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	381
Place by popularity	89
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	11.59
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GP107B
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	3 January 2017 (7 years ago)
Current price	$256	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	640	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores	640
Core clock speed	1354 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1493 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	3,300 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C
Texture fill rate	59.72	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
SLI options	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4000 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Multi monitor support	+
HDCP	2.2
G-SYNC support	+

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream	+
GPU Boost	3.0
Ansel	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 1050 Mobile 11.53

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GTX 1050 Mobile 4461

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 1050 Mobile 26560

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 1050 Mobile 7693

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 1050 Mobile 6068

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 1050 Mobile 38042

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

GTX 1050 Mobile 287287

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 1050 Mobile 78

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p	73
Full HD	46
1440p	24
4K	15

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	37
Battlefield 5	51
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	40
Far Cry 5	39
Far Cry New Dawn	38
Forza Horizon 4	55
Red Dead Redemption 2	27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	33

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30
Battlefield 5	44
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	33
Far Cry 5	36
Far Cry New Dawn	37
Forza Horizon 4	52
Metro Exodus	19
Red Dead Redemption 2	14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	29
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	39

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	18
Battlefield 5	37
Far Cry 5	33
Far Cry New Dawn	33
Forza Horizon 4	37
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	22

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18
Metro Exodus	11
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	17

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	13
Battlefield 5	26
Far Cry 5	21
Far Cry New Dawn	24
Forza Horizon 4	26

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10
Metro Exodus	7
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7
Battlefield 5	13
Far Cry 5	11
Far Cry New Dawn	11
Forza Horizon 4	15

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook video cards.

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile 110.93

GeForce GTX 860M SLI 106.59

GeForce MX550 103.3

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 100

Iris Xe MAX Graphics 98.87

Radeon RX 560 Mobile 97.57

Radeon RX 5300M 96.53

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile is Radeon RX 560 Mobile, which is slower by 2% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.