GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 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 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 54.0 Below Average WINNER 43.0 Poor
Gaming 7.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 6772 72432
Night Raid 27079 195813
Time Spy 1739 36299
Wild Life Extreme 3881 85218
Port Royal — 26127
Solar Bay — 187525

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 6.1 8.9
DLSS No DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 21 255
1080p Ultra 15 217
1440p Ultra 11 177
4K Ultra - 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 28211611 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 372114- 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 11--- 22620814366
Far Cry 6 242412- 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 211110- 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 12--- 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 14129- 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 231711- 302284222118
The Witcher 3 151511- 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 5567 75599
Face Detection (HP) 3004 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1249 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 1833 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 3934 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 1857 6349
Object Detection (SP) 1624 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 14474 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 24188 601428
Text Classification (SP) 1249 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 52.5 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 1.16 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 24.9 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.2 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.25 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 0.79 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1832.4 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 65.5 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture Pascal Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP107 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $109 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 7400or above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released October 25, 2016 September 20, 2022
Segment Entry-level High-end
Successor -GeForce GTX 1650 -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1354 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1455 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 5 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 176
Shading Units 640 16384
Tensor Cores No 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 128-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 7000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1752 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 2 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 38 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 21 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 458 1303
GPU Compute 2111 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 132 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 14 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 75 W 450 W
Transistor Count 3 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 22.73 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 47 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 58 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce RTX 4090
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) — Cinebench 2024

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