NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 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 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (990MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh
+103%
4.055 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2022
Release Date
Nov 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
975 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
96bit
Memory Bus
256bit
144.0GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
1024
64
TMUs
64
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
31.20 GPixel/s
63.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
4.055 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.055 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
63.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Pitcairn
-
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
2.8 billion
Unknown
Die Size
212 mm²
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
