Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GN20-S7

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2013

December 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1477 MHz

Core clock speed

947 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

30-45 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

189.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready