RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile with RTX 4000 Ada Generation, including specs and performance data.

Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
2018
3 MB GDDR5
12.62

RTX 4000 Ada Generation outperforms Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile by a whopping 414% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking39028
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data34.56
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD104
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release dateApril 2018 (6 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7686144
Core clock speed1366 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1442 MHz2175 MHz
Number of transistorsno data35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data130 Watt
Texture fill rateno data417.6
Floating-point processing powerno data26.73 TFLOPS
ROPsno data80
TMUsno data192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data245 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 MB20 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit160 Bit
Memory clock speed1752 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth84 GB/s360.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Multi-Projection+no data
Multi Monitor+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA-8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 12.62 64.88
Maximum RAM amount 3 MB 20 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm

RTX 4000 Ada Generation has a 414.1% higher aggregate performance score, a 682566.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 4000 Ada Generation is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile is a notebook card while RTX 4000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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