GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated293
Place by popularitynot in top-10017
Power efficiencyno data29.89
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePitcairnGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 November 2014 (9 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 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 cores10242048
Core clock speed850 MHz1185 MHz
Boost clock speed975 MHz1477 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate62.4094.53
Floating-point processing power1.997 TFLOPS6.05 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1365 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth174.7 GB/s112.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 November 2014 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 45 Watt

RTX 2050 Mobile has an age advantage of 7 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 77.8% lower power consumption.

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
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