NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (115W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +87%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

275W

300 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

6.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

438 mm²

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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