NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q 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 Ti Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1035MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q +165%

5.299 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2021

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

735 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1035 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

82.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

5.299 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.299 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

82.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

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Portable Device Dependent

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

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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