Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2013 Jul 2022
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 30 Mobile
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1500 MHz
Base Clock 622 MHz
Boost Clock 990 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 6GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 512bit 96bit
Bandwidth 320.0GB/s 144.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 40
Shading Units 2560 2048
TMUs 160 64
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 2 MB
SM Count 16
Tensor Cores 64
RT Cores 16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 60.61 GPixel/s 31.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 151.5 GTexel/s 63.36 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.849 TFLOPS 4.055 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 606.1 GFLOPS 63.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 4.055 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hawaii GA107
GPU Variant Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture GCN 2.0 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 28 nm 8 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion Unknown
Die Size 438 mm² Unknown
Board Design
TDP 275W 75W
Suggested PSU 600 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 6.3 6.6
CUDA 8.6