AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1343MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +108%

4.813 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2024

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

1065 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

56

-

RT Cores

14

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GA106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

276 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

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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