NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1605MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +311%

8.218 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1605 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

128.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

8.218 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

128.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GN21-X2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

146 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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