GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (12/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 54.0 Below Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 8.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 7702 87569
Night Raid 33499 206648
Time Spy 2351 46873
Wild Life Extreme 4901 108751
Port Royal 38202
Solar Bay 236689

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 6.1 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 27 299
1080p Ultra 20 254
1440p Ultra 14 207
4K Ultra - 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 28241712 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 4729229 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 1513-- 26123316077
Far Cry 6 3329189 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 3116159 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 159-- 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 181310- 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 292617- 329302238128
The Witcher 3 252213- 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 6258 85572
Face Detection (HP) 3275 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1518 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 2085 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4847 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 1875 8184
Object Detection (SP) 1743 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 16118 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 26368 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1440 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 56.6 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 1.2 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 27.4 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.27 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 0.82 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1916.5 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 66.3 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 570
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP107 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $139 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Released October 25, 2016 January 7, 2025
Segment Entry-level High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1291 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1392 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 176
Shading Units 768 21760
Tensor Cores No 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 7000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1752 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 4 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 44 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 26 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 656 1410
GPU Compute 2668 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 132 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 14 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Max. Temperature 97°C
TGP 75 W 575 W
Transistor Count 3 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 22.73 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 45 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 67 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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