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GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
VS
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GA107
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
GP107 (N17P-G1)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile with 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 5 years older GTX 1050 Ti Mobile that utilizes 6 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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 GTX 1050 Ti Laptop over RTX 2050 Laptop
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
  • Performs significantly better (up to 72%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (6 vs 2.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 92% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 25 vs 13 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 21K)
  • Has 2.7x more shading units (2048 vs 768)
  • Features 64 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 2050 Mobile
vs
GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
66
38
28
18
32
18
14
-
The Witcher 3
49
40
24
14
23
20
15
-
Counter-Strike 2
87
61
41
17
49
27
20
-
Far Cry 6
48
45
34
15
31
28
18
10
Hogwarts Legacy
29
22
17
9
16
13
11
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
37
32
21
15
29
24
14
12
Ghost of Tsushima
27
20
15
9
15
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
28
24
14
-
15
11
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
51
50
31
15
29
24
15
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 47 27
1080p Ultra 37 19
1440p Ultra 25 13
4K Ultra 13 -
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
Time Spy 3932 2345
Solar Bay 19073 -
Port Royal 413 -
Fire Strike 10472 7709
Wild Life Extreme 7222 4954
Night Raid 45365 31468
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 73.3 img/sec 57 img/sec
Face Detection 39.7 img/sec 27.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.65 Gpixels/sec 0.84 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.13 Gpixels/sec 1.22 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.06 Gpixels/sec 1.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 191.1 Gpixels/sec 73.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5921.5 FPS 2037 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
G2D Mark 479 323
DirectX 11 47 FPS 45 FPS
DirectX 12 42 FPS 24 FPS
GPU Compute 3507 Ops/s 2190 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 5094 & 1541 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 2050 Mobile +241%
752.18
GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
220.74
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 268 & 22 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-20 (ZB)Geekbench 6 OpenCL45651
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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
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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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 3489 1393
Image Segmentation (HP) 7528 2013
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6509 4766
Face Detection (HP) 13217 3370
Pose Estimation (Q) 24531 17580
Text Classification (SP) 2148 1319
Machine Translation (HP) 2764 1662
Object Detection (SP) 3948 1771
Depth Estimation (Q) 13355 6411
Style Transfer (SP) 60626 28772
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released December 17, 2021 January 3, 2017
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ampere Pascal
GPU Codename GA107 GP107 (N17P-G1)
Successor - - GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 11500H or above - Intel Core i5 8300H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (97th and 129th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 735-1185 MHz (configurable) 1493 MHz
Boost Clock 1245-1477 MHz (configurable) 1620 MHz
Shading Units 2048 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 6
Tensor Cores 64 No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 No
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 40-47 GPixel/s 52 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 80-95 GTexel/s 78 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 2050 Mobile +140%
5.1-6 TFLOPS
GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
2.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 30-45 W (configurable) 65 W
Manufacturing Samsung Samsung
Fabrication Process 8 nm 14 nm
Die Size 200 mm² 132 mm²
Transistor Count 8 billion 3.3 billion
Transistor Density 40 MTr/mm² 25 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1752 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 7008 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 2050 Mobile
112 GB/s
GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
112.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2.131
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
CUDA 8.6 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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