GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile vs Adreno X1-85

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 4 GB with 5 pipelines and 640 shaders against the 6 years and 10 months newer Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-85 over GTX 1050 Laptop
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
  • Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.6 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
  • Has 2.4x more shading units (1536 vs 640)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
26
13
12
-
-
The Witcher 3
19
17
11
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
42
23
15
-
-
Far Cry 6
29
23
14
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
15
10
10
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
26
24
13
11
-
Ghost of Tsushima
14
-
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
12
9
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
24
21
13
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 23 -
1080p Ultra 16 -
1440p Ultra 11 -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
2067
Time Spy 2092 1695
Solar Bay - 10596
Fire Strike 6526 6134
Wild Life Extreme 4262 6152
Night Raid 28118 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
24387
Background Blur 54.1 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 25.9 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.9 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.31 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.4 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.2 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 70.1 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2008.1 FPS 4692.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
4463
G2D Mark 292 518
DirectX 11 35 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 19 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 1813 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2441 & 7 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 4 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
3460
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
2504
Image Classification (SP) 1251 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 1693 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 3586 3084
Face Detection (HP) 2839 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 14257 7719
Text Classification (SP) 1087 292
Machine Translation (HP) 1492 1108
Object Detection (SP) 1531 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 5281 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 23251 12048
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Nvidia Qualcomm
Build Discrete Integrated
Released January 3, 2017 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Pascal Adreno X1
GPU Codename GP107 (N17P-G0) Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8300H or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (129th and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1354 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1493 MHz 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 640 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 5 6
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 24 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 60 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.9 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85 +142%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 IGP
TGP 55 W 30 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 14 nm 4 nm
Die Size 132 mm² -
Transistor Count 3.3 billion -
Transistor Density 25 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 97°C -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5 System Shared
Memory Size 4 GB -
Memory Clock 1752 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 7008 Mbps -
Bus 128-bit -
ECC No -
Memory Bandwidth
112.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
CUDA 6.1 No
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4

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