NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1477MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile +202%

6.05 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1185 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1477 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

32

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

94.53 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

12.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.050 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

189.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Pitcairn

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GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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