NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +26%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

2048

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

290W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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