NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 164% (2640MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 +230%

13.52 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2505 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2640 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

216.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

18

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

84.48 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

211.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

352 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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