GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB vs Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking412not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency19.88no data
Architectureno dataPascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameno dataGP107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)1 February 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536768
Core clock speedno data1366 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1442 MHz
Number of transistorsno data3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data69.22
Floating-point processing powerno data2.215 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5xGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data3 GB
Memory bus widthno data96 Bit
Memory clock speed8448 MHz1752 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data84.1 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 4 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 75 Watt

Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS has a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 87.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS and GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS
SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB
GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB

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