Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2014

February 2024

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1470 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2x 2800 Million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

70 Watt

Texture fill rate

105.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

168.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (FL 11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

1.3