GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile vs Radeon HD 7990

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking363not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.35no data
Power efficiency2.65no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameMaltaGB207
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date24 April 2013 (11 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores20482560
Core clock speed950 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate128.0201.6
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPS12.9 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12880
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 3.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length307 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s

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 DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 5050 Mobile has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 226.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7990 and GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7990 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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