NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jun 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1515 MHz
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Boost Clock
1755 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
512bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
345.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
18
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Shading Units
2304
2816
TMUs
72
176
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
72
—
RT Cores
18
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
—
44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
580W
Suggested PSU
300 W
950 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
4x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.6
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.