AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2014
Jun 2025
Generation
Crystal System
GeForce 50 Mobile
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
850 MHz
1020 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
384.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
16
-
Shading Units
1024
2560
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
32 MB
SM Count
-
20
Tensor Cores
-
80
RT Cores
-
20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
48.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
120.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
7.680 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
120.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.680 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Pitcairn
GB207
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
GB207
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
16.9 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
149 mm²

Board Design

TDP
80W
50W
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
None
Suggested PSU
-
300 W

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
-
12.0