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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile is a laptop graphics processor released on January 3, 2017, built on the Pascal architecture using a 14 nm process. It has 640 shading units, 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, 112.1 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.49 GHz and a 55 W board power rating. It scores 4,463 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

PascalGP107 (N17P-G0-A1)14 nmMobile

10/10 key specs recorded · 48 facts

Depth: 44 recorded fields, 1 feature, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NanoReview (Firecrawl extract) and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 10 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NanoReview (Firecrawl extract)PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

640cores

5 compute units

Memory

4 GB

GDDR5 · 128-bit

Boost clock

1.49 GHz

1.35 GHz base

Board power

55 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile scores 4,463 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 78.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #596), measured across 2,441 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 292.

PassMark G3D Mark

4,463

Rank #596
Faster than 78.6% of 2,658 GPUs
2,441 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 75 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 69.6% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 20 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 62% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 35 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 62.9% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 19 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 52.7% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 1,813 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 62.3% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile averages DirectX 9 75 fps, DirectX 10 20 fps, DirectX 11 35 fps, DirectX 12 19 fps and GPU Compute 1,813 ops/s, across 2,441 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 4 GB

Core clock 1354 MHz

Memory clock 1752 MHz

DirectX 12

First benchmarked 2019-04-10

Samples 2,441

PassMark listing (collected 2026-09-30)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 4 GB of memory, a core clock of 1354 MHz and DirectX 12, first benchmarked on 2019-04-10. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with Max-Q Design, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 with Max-Q Design, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Pascal

Codename GP107 (N17P-G0-A1)

Chip Not recorded

Process node 14 nm

Transistors 3,300 M

Die size 132 mm²

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile is based on the Pascal architecture, uses the GP107 (N17P-G0-A1) graphics processor, is manufactured on a 14 nm process, contains 3,300 million transistors and has a die size of 132 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 640

Compute units 5

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 40

Render output units (ROPs) 16

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile has 640 shading units, 5 compute units, 40 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.35 GHz

Boost clock 1.49 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock 1.75 GHz

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile runs at a base clock of 1.35 GHz and boosts to 1.49 GHz.

Memory

Size 4 GB

Type GDDR5

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth 112.1 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 112.1 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile has a board power rating of 55 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 55 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched January 3, 2017

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Laptop

Series GeForce GTX 10 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile was released on January 3, 2017.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 4,463

PassMark G2D 292

Rank #596

Samples 2,441

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

OpenCL 1.2

CUDA compute capability 6.1

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 6.1

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile supports CUDA (Compute capability 6.1) under Compute and AI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile have?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 112.1 GB/s.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile has a board power rating of 55 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile scores 4,463 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 78.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #596. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 19 fps.