GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs Radeon R9 290X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated232
Place by popularitynot in top-10040
Power efficiencyno data22.76
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameHawaiiGA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date24 June 2014 (10 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 no data

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 cores28162048
Core clock speed1000 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1057 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)580 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate176.067.65
Floating-point processing power5.632 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs6440
TMUs17664
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width3-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors4x 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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 June 2014 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 580 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 3050 Mobile has an age advantage of 6 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 673.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290X2 and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 290X2 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 290X2
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