GeForce GTX 1050
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce 10 series · launched October 2016
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce GTX 1050 launched at $109 in 2016. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $150 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 38% rise over 10 years. At its launch price that is 155 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2016 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 169 (middle half of runs 137–177) across 108 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #93 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #10 of 11 in the GeForce 10 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce 10 series |
| Launched | October 2016 |
| Launch price | $109 |
| Architecture | Pascal |
| Chip | GP107-300-A1 |
| Memory | 2 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 112.1 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,354 MHz (boost 1,455 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 1.86 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 75 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 3.3 billion |
| Die size | 132 mm² |
| Process | 14 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 3x16 |
| Tier | 50-class |
The Nvidia 50-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce GTS 450 | 2010 | $129 | $196 | — |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti | 2011 | $149 | $219 | — |
| GeForce GTX 650 | 2012 | $109 | $157 | — |
| GeForce GTX 650 Ti | 2012 | $149 | $215 | — |
| GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost | 2013 | $169 | $240 | — |
| GeForce GTX 750 | 2014 | $119 | $166 | 87 |
| GeForce GTX 750 Ti | 2014 | $149 | $208 | 103 |
| GeForce GTX 950 | 2015 | $159 | $222 | 116 |
| GeForce GTX 950 Low Power | 2016 | $159 | $219 | — |
| GeForce GTX 1050 | 2016 | $109 | $150 | 169 |
| GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | 2016 | $139 | $192 | 210 |
| GeForce GTX 1650 | 2019 | $149 | $193 | 429 |
| GeForce GTX 1650 Super | 2019 | $159 | $206 | 547 |
| GeForce RTX 3050 | 2022 | $249 | $282 | 1,402 |
| GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB | 2024 | $179 | $189 | — |
| GeForce RTX 5050 | 2025 | $249 | $256 | 2,876 |
Compare with
- GeForce GTX 1050 Ti · 2016 · $139 · 210
- GeForce GTX 960 · 2015 · $199 · 161
- Radeon R7 350 · 2016 · $89
- Radeon RX 460 · 2016 · $109
- Radeon R7 360 · 2015 · $109
- Radeon RX 560 · 2017 · $99
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