AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1492MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh
+206%
6.111 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jul 2022
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
1237 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1492 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
96bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1024
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
47.74 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.49 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.111 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.111 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.49 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GA107
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
212 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
