NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +129%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 50

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

Hawaii

GB207

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

6.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

9.1

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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