NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (990MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +75%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

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Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Neptune

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GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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