AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (70W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +39%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3681

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +31%

4832

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1042 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

96bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA107

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

70W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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