Radeon R9 290X2 and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290X2

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Hawaii

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

June 2014

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

4x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

1552 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 5,632 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

580 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

176.0

102.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit Bit

Memory clock speed

5400 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory bandwidth

345.6 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2