NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (70W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +20%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

512bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

2304

Shading Units

2816

72

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

580W

250 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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