GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs Radeon RX 5900 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated296
Place by popularitynot in top-10020
Power efficiencyno data28.46
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21GA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data17 December 2021 (3 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 cores43522048
Core clock speedno data1185 MHz
Boost clock speed1735 MHz1477 MHz
Number of transistors21,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate471.994.53
Floating-point processing power15.1 TFLOPS6.05 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs27264
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 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x 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 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 45 Watt

RX 5900 XT has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 2050 Mobile, on the other hand, has 566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5900 XT and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5900 XT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 5900 XT
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