Component comparison
GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce RTX 4090
- + Release year (+7)
- + VRAM (GB) (+12 GB)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+922 GB/s)
- + Memory bus (bit) (+256 bit)
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+45 W)
- + Lithography (nm) (-10 nm)
- + Transistors (M) (+73,000M)
- + CUDA cores (+15616)
- + TMUs (+464)
- + ROPs (+144)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+80.40 TFLOPS)
- + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+398.96 GPixel/s)
- + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+1223.18 GTexel/s)
- + Energy efficiency (+26.1)
- + PassMark (overall) (+20684)
- + 3DMark Time Spy (+18990)
- + 3DMark Fire Strike (+38706)
- + Normalized score (+34.2)
B
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- + Die size (mm²) (+477 mm²)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce RTX 4090
|
Component B
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2023 (+7) | 2016 |
| VRAM (GB) | 16 GB (+12 GB) | 4 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 2250 MHz | — |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 1034 GB/s (+922 GB/s) | 112 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 384 bit (+256 bit) | 128 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 120 W (+45 W) | 75 W |
| Lithography (nm) | 4 nm (-10 nm) | 14 nm |
| Transistors (M) | 76,300M (+73,000M) | 3,300M |
| Die size (mm²) | 609 mm² | 132 mm² (+477 mm²) |
| Base clock (MHz) | — | — |
| Boost clock (MHz) | — | — |
| CUDA cores | 16,384 (+15616) | 768 |
| TMUs | 512 (+464) | 48 |
| ROPs | 176 (+144) | 32 |
| RT cores | 128 | — |
| Tensor cores | 512 | — |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 82.58 TFLOPS (+80.40 TFLOPS) | 2.18 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 443.50 GPixel/s (+398.96 GPixel/s) | 44.54 GPixel/s |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 1290.00 GTexel/s (+1223.18 GTexel/s) | 66.82 GTexel/s |
| Energy efficiency | 41.9 (+26.1) | 15.8 |
| PassMark (overall) | 27,047 (+20684) | 6,363 |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 21,251 (+18990) | 2,261 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 46,191 (+38706) | 7,485 |
| Geekbench OpenCL | — | 20,654 |
| Geekbench Vulkan | — | 19,790 |
| Normalized score | 75.0 (+34.2) | 40.8 |
Only in component A
DLSS
ReBAR
ray_tracing
In both
CUDA
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce RTX 4090 | GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assassin´s Creed Valhalla | 144 FPS | 15 FPS | +860% (A) |
| Battlefield 5 | 170 FPS | 57 FPS | +198.2% (A) |
| Borderlands 3 | 162 FPS | 28 FPS | +478.6% (A) |
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| Control | 184 FPS | 22 FPS | +736.4% (A) |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 300 FPS | 70 FPS | +328.6% (A) |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 147 FPS | 27 FPS | +444.4% (A) |
| Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 | 98 FPS | 17 FPS | +476.5% (A) |
| Death Stranding | 167 FPS | 36 FPS | +363.9% (A) |
| Dota 2 | 199 FPS | 98 FPS | +103.1% (A) |
| Dying Light 2 | 145 FPS | 17 FPS | +752.9% (A) |
| Elden Ring | 60 FPS | 26 FPS | +130.8% (A) |
| Elex 2 | 116 FPS | 21 FPS | +452.4% (A) |
| Escape from Tarkov | 120 FPS | 45 FPS | +166.7% (A) |
| F1 2020 | 344 FPS | 63 FPS | +446% (A) |
| F1 22 | 199 FPS | 48 FPS | +314.6% (A) |
| Far Cry 5 | 173 FPS | 48 FPS | +260.4% (A) |
| Far Cry 6 | 103 FPS | 29 FPS | +255.2% (A) |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 145 FPS | 42 FPS | +245.2% (A) |
| Final Fantasy XV Benchmark | 122 FPS | 23 FPS | +430.4% (A) |
| Fortnite | 300 FPS | 75 FPS | +300% (A) |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 250 FPS | 67 FPS | +273.1% (A) |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 281 FPS | 40 FPS | +602.5% (A) |
| GRID Legends | 190 FPS | 42 FPS | +352.4% (A) |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 154 FPS | 60 FPS | +156.7% (A) |
| Ghostwire Tokyo | 234 FPS | 33 FPS | +609.1% (A) |
| God of War | 167 FPS | 12 FPS | +1291.7% (A) |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 174 FPS | 31 FPS | +461.3% (A) |
| Hunt Showdown | 262 FPS | 34 FPS | +670.6% (A) |
| Mafia Definitive Edition | 179 FPS | 33 FPS | +442.4% (A) |
| Metro Exodus | 156 FPS | 31 FPS | +403.2% (A) |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Rainbow Six Extraction | 346 FPS | 42 FPS | +723.8% (A) |
| Resident Evil 4 Remake | 218 FPS | 24 FPS | +808.3% (A) |
| Riders Republic | 185 FPS | 29 FPS | +537.9% (A) |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 243 FPS | 31 FPS | +683.9% (A) |
| The Quarry | 177 FPS | 24 FPS | +637.5% (A) |
| The Witcher 3 | 394 FPS | 46 FPS | +756.5% (A) |
| The Witcher 3 | 290 FPS | 21 FPS | +1281% (A) |
| Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | 168 FPS | 24 FPS | +600% (A) |
| Valorant | 350 FPS | 110 FPS | +218.2% (A) |
| Watch Dogs Legion | 131 FPS | 27 FPS | +385.2% (A) |
| X-Plane 11.11 | 78 FPS | 44 FPS | +77.3% (A) |
| Yakuza Like a Dragon | 167 FPS | 33 FPS | +406.1% (A) |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.
Based on the comparison:
GeForce RTX 4090 wins 18 of the comparable criteria.
The choice depends on your use case.
🤔 How to choose
Universal advice for any use case.
- Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
- Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
- Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).