NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 's Advantages

Boost Clock2640MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 +140%

13.52 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2505 MHz

Base Clock

-

2640 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

512bit

216.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

2560

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

84.48 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

211.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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