Radeon R9 290X and GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
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Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2013
April 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1442 MHz
Core clock speed
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1366 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
768
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
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Texture fill rate
176.0
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
84 GB/s
Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
+
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HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
+
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G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
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Mantle
-
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OpenCL
2.0
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
6.3
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Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
+
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CrossFire
1
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DDMA audio
+
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Enduro
-
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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LiquidVR
1
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Multi Monitor
-
+
Multi-Projection
-
+
PowerTune
-
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TressFX
1
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TrueAudio
+
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UVD
+
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ZeroCore
-
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