AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 's Advantages

Boost Clock2640MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 +140%

13.52 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce RTX 4050

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2505 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2640 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

96bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.48 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.52 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

211.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

AD107

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

100W

950 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

8.9

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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