NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB 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 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1207MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB
+209%
6.18 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2022
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
652 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1207 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
1024
80
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.62 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
6.180 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.180 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
45W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Pitcairn
-
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
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
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
