GeForce GTX 1050 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 (11/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1050

11/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 54.0 Below Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 7.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 6772 87569
Night Raid 27079 206648
Time Spy 1739 46873
Wild Life Extreme 3881 108751
Port Royal — 38202
Solar Bay — 236689

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 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 GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 21 299
1080p Ultra 15 254
1440p Ultra 11 207
4K Ultra - 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 28211611 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 372114- 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 11--- 26123316077
Far Cry 6 242412- 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 211110- 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 12--- 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 14129- 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 231711- 329302238128
The Witcher 3 151511- 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 5567 85572
Face Detection (HP) 3004 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1249 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 1833 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 3934 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 1857 8184
Object Detection (SP) 1624 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 14474 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 24188 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1249 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 52.5 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 1.16 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 24.9 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.2 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.25 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 0.79 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1832.4 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 65.5 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP107 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $109 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 7400or above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released October 25, 2016 January 7, 2025
Segment Entry-level High-end
Successor -GeForce GTX 1650 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1354 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1455 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 5 170
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 640 21760
Tensor Cores No 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 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 2 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 38 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 21 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 458 1410
GPU Compute 2111 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 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
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 GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 47 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 58 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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