What is the best local model for coding on the Gtx 1050?

On the Gtx 1050, mistralai/ministral-3-3b ranks first for coding in our benchmarks (33.2/100 at ~3.2 tok/s).

What is the best local model for agentic workflows on the Gtx 1050?

On the Gtx 1050, qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct ranks first for agentic workflows in our benchmarks (74.9/100 at ~23.9 tok/s).

Hardware Benchmarks

Compare Gtx 1050 benchmark results and see which models actually earn the best completed quality scores.

GPU-specific specifications for local LLM planning.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

Models we recommend for Gtx 1050.

Fastest & Largest context

1.5B

23.9 tok/sContext 8,192 tokens

Highest token generation speed at 23.9 tok/s. Largest context that fits in 2GB VRAM, at 8,192 tokens.

Best quality

4.8 tok/sQuality 49.7

Highest completed quality score at 49.7.

Which models actually run best on the Gtx 1050, by task, from community benchmark data.

What is the best local model for coding on the Gtx 1050?: On the Gtx 1050, mistralai/ministral-3-3b ranks first for coding in our benchmarks (33.2/100 at ~3.2 tok/s).
What is the best local model for agentic workflows on the Gtx 1050?: On the Gtx 1050, qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct ranks first for agentic workflows in our benchmarks (74.9/100 at ~23.9 tok/s).

Completed quality-ranked benchmark results for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050.