GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs Radeon R9 Nano

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking247not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10076
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.34no data
Power efficiency9.07no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameFijiGA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date27 August 2015 (9 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 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 cores40962048
Compute units64no data
Core clock speedno data832 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1155 MHz
Number of transistors8,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate256.073.92
Floating-point processing power8.192 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs25664
Tensor Coresno data64
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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length152 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeHigh Bandwidth Memory (HBM)GDDR6
High bandwidth memory (HBM)+no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth512 GB/s96 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI++
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
ZeroCore+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
Mantle+-
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2015 17 December 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 30 Watt

RTX 2050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 6 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 Nano is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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