Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290
GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GN20-P0-R 6 GB
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
January 2023
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
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1492 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1237 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
151.5
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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HDMI
+
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DirectX
12 (12_0)
12_2
OpenCL
2.0
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
6.3
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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