Radeon R9 390X2 vs GeForce RTX 4050

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking121not rated
Place by popularity41not in top-100
Power efficiency26.02no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameAD107no data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2023 (1 year ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25602
Core clock speed2505 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2640 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors18,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rate211.2no data
Floating-point processing power13.52 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs80no data
Tensor Cores120no data
Ray Tracing Cores18no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8no data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6512
Maximum RAM amount6 GBno data
Memory bus width96 Bit5400 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth216.0 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4ano data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)GDDR5
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4050 and Radeon R9 390X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
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