Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Hawaii

GN21-X2

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2013

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2370 MHz

Core clock speed

947 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

151.5

140.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

16000 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3