GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 11.57% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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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 ranking | 432 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 12.42 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | |
| GPU code name | GP107 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 21 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 cores | 768 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1392 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1518 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 3,300 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 72.86 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.332 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 24 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 288 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | of 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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 145 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 96 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1752 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 84.1 GB/s | of 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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | |
| CUDA | 6.1 |
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.
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.
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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 8 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
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