GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 11.56% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB sales 21 May 2018. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Pascal architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 96 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 84.1 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 145 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking432
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency12.40of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGP107
Market segmentDesktop
Release date21 May 2018 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1392 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1518 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors3,300 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate72.86of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power2.332 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs24of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs48of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache288 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache768 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length145 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width96 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1752 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth84.1 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB. 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131
CUDA6.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GTX 1050 3 GB
11.56

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

GTX 1050 3 GB Samples: 175 5111

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 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.

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB is Radeon HD 7970, which is faster by 3% and higher by 9 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB:

Radeon 760M 107.79
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 100

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