AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1035MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q +165%

5.299 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2021

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

735 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1035 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1024

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.12 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.80 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.299 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.299 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

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No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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

8.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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