Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

May 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1035 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

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

82.80

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

11 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

176.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3