GeForce GTX 1050 Ti: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti was the step-up card of 2016's Pascal entry tier — the same GP107 silicon as the GTX 1050, but with the memory doubled to 4 GB, which turned out to be the spec that kept it relevant. The catalog matches 39 models to it, with benchmarks in 141 games at 1080p. This guide covers its 2026 standing and the laptops that carry it.

Where the GTX 1050 Ti sits in 2026

A catalog score of 40.8 places the chip 154th of 341 scored mobile GPUs. The neighborhood tells a decade-long story: NVIDIA's current-generation entry release, the RTX 5050, scores 41.3 in this catalog — less than a point above a ten-year-old GTX card — and Apple's M2 integrated graphics (41.1) sit between them, with professional Quadro T600, M5000M and P2000 parts interleaved. A 2016 GPU ranking that close to a 2025 release is either a compliment to Pascal or a comment on entry-tier progress; either way, the 1050 Ti still clears the bar its successors barely moved.

What the chip brings

The formula is Pascal entry-class: the GP107 die on a 14 nm process, 768 shader cores, 4 GB of GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus with 112 GB/s of bandwidth, about 2.2 TFLOPS and a 75 W thermal design. No ray tracing, no DLSS — the feature set froze in 2016. What the 4 GB buffer buys over the 2 GB GTX 1050 is texture headroom: medium-settings 1080p in modern games stays viable where the smaller card stutters. Public benchmarks run around 6,400 PassMark points and a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 2,300, with CUDA support for light compute work.

FPS in games at 1080p

Esports staples run at full speed on the high preset: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS, FIFA 18 at 189, GTA V and PUBG at 140, Valorant at 110 rising to 172 on medium, Fortnite at 75 and Rainbow Six Siege at 75. The older AAA catalog holds up: Doom runs 68 FPS, Forza Horizon 4 67, Battlefield V 57, Far Cry 5 48 and the Witcher 3 46. The modern tier is where honesty is required: Cyberpunk 2077 posts 27, Elden Ring 26, the Resident Evil 4 remake 24, Dying Light 2 17 and God of War 12 on high — playable only in the sense that the frames arrive. Red Dead Redemption 2 registers 33 on medium records, which is the realistic ceiling for this class of port.

Laptops that carry it

The name-matched roster of 39 models is the familiar Acer landscape. Aspire 7 machines from 2021–2024 ask $399–$650 in mainstream trim; Nitro 5 units (AN515/AN517, 2021–2023) ask $590–$922 in gaming trim. Roster medians — a gaming index of 56.5, 31.5 games clearing recommended settings, energy efficiency at 72.6 — describe capable budget machines rather than gaming specialists. Buyers at this price point are choosing between this chip, its 2 GB sibling and integrated-only alternatives; the 4 GB buffer is the tiebreaker.

Bottom line

In 2026 the GTX 1050 Ti is a budget esports and older-titles GPU that clears every competitive staple and quits gracefully at the modern AAA boundary. The 4 GB of memory is what keeps it a viable buy — the 2 GB GTX 1050 has aged out of newer medium-settings textures, and this card hasn't. At $399–$650 in Aspire and Nitro listings it remains one of the cheapest usable dedicated-GPU options in the catalog. The compare pages against RTX 3050 and newer chips show the gap plainly; buy those if the library includes current blockbusters, buy this if it doesn't.