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GeForce GTX 1050

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Release date ≈ Q1 2017.

Average Bench: 28.7% (172nd of 714)

Based on 34 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1C22 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Poor: 25%Average: 28.7% Great: 31%

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Very poor average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 averaged 71.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 33fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 44.3fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 is just 5.76%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 38.6fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 32.1fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 34 samples)
Rank 17228.7%
Min Avg Max
6.7 Lighting 33 38.9
11.6 Reflection 38.6 101
27.2 Parallax 32.1 37.7
26.9% 34.5 fps
Min Avg Max
31.6 MRender 37.8 40.1
28.6 Gravity 33.5 35.9
39.8 Splatting 44.3 48
32.1% 38.6 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Dell(1028 0770) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.1640
29.3% Poor
Lighting 34.5
Reflection 36.4
Parallax 33.7
28% 34.9 fps
MRender 38.5
Gravity 35.2
Splatting 41.5
32% 38.4 fps
Dell(1028 076F) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 516.94
28.9% Poor
Lighting 33.8
Reflection 36.3
Parallax 33.4
28% 34.5 fps
MRender 38.5
Gravity 34.8
Splatting 41.5
32% 38.3 fps
Dell(1028 076F) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 431.53
28.8% Poor
Lighting 33.4
Reflection 38.3
Parallax 33.3
27% 35 fps
MRender 38.8
Gravity 35.4
Splatting 41.5
32% 38.6 fps
Dell(1028 0770) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 511.79
28.5% Poor
Lighting 33.2
Reflection 52.2
Parallax 32.5
27% 39.3 fps
MRender 38.5
Gravity 34.1
Splatting 40.7
31% 37.8 fps
Dell(1028 0770) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 27.21.14.6618
28.3% Poor
Lighting 32.6
Reflection 49.9
Parallax 29.7
27% 37.4 fps
MRender 38.5
Gravity 35.2
Splatting 41.5
32% 38.4 fps
Dell(1028 0770) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.1659
28% Poor
Lighting 32.5
Reflection 36.2
Parallax 32.5
26% 33.7 fps
MRender 38.8
Gravity 33.4
Splatting 40
31% 37.4 fps
Dell(1028 0770) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 511.79
27.4% Poor
Lighting 31.9
Reflection 50.8
Parallax 30.8
26% 37.8 fps
MRender 38.9
Gravity 32.4
Splatting 38.7
30% 36.7 fps
Dell(1028 076F) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 456.87
26.7% Poor
Lighting 30.6
Reflection 34.3
Parallax 31.1
25% 32 fps
MRender 37.5
Gravity 32.5
Splatting 39.1
30% 36.4 fps
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Dell(1028 0770) 71% 28% ± 4%
Dell(1028 076F) 29% 30% ± 1%
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Gaming 24%
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Desktop
Desktop 71%
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Workstation 21%
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System: Alienware 13 R3

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples366x
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples55x
Core i5-7300HQIntelBench 57%, 170,871 samples32x
GPU
GeForce GTX 1050NvidiaBench 29%, 34 samples1x
SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples40x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba  $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples28x
THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshibaBench 122%, 19,561 samples28x
RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 27,567 samples71x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 1x8GBUnknownBench 37%, 41,676 samples27x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,951 samples25x
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