NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (130W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +61%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2014

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

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

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

64.00 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

276 mm²

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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