Radeon R9 290X and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
GN20-S7
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2013
December 2021
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1477 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
30-45 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
189.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.2
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-