Component comparison

GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 5050
  • + Release year (+9)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+4 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+208 GB/s)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+40 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-11 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+13,600M)
  • + CUDA cores (+1792)
  • + TMUs (+32)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+10.99 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+37.76 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+138.98 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+8.5)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+7704)
  • + Normalized score (+0.6)
B GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
  • + Die size (mm²) (+17 mm²)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 5050
Component B
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Release year 2025 (+9) 2016
VRAM (GB) 8 GB (+4 GB) 4 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock (MHz) — —
Bandwidth (GB/s) 320 GB/s (+208 GB/s) 112 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 128 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W (+40 W) 75 W
Lithography (nm) 3 nm (-11 nm) 14 nm
Transistors (M) 16,900M (+13,600M) 3,300M
Die size (mm²) 149 mm² 132 mm² (+17 mm²)
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 2,560 (+1792) 768
TMUs 80 (+32) 48
ROPs 32 32
RT cores 20 —
Tensor cores 80 —
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 13.17 TFLOPS (+10.99 TFLOPS) 2.18 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 82.30 GPixel/s (+37.76 GPixel/s) 44.54 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 205.80 GTexel/s (+138.98 GTexel/s) 66.82 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 24.3 (+8.5) 15.8
PassMark (overall) 14,067 (+7704) 6,363
3DMark Time Spy — 2,261
3DMark Fire Strike — 7,485
Geekbench OpenCL — 20,654
Geekbench Vulkan — 19,790
Normalized score 41.3 (+0.6) 40.8

Only in component A

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Delta
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 5050 wins 14 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).