Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
5279
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GP107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
May 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1518 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1392 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
3,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
768
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
72.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
84.1 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131