AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jan 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1740 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
—
Shading Units
2560
2048
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
16
Tensor Cores
—
64
RT Cores
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
55.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
7.127 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
7.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GA107
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
GA107-140-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
8.7 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
90W
Suggested PSU
600 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
CUDA
—
8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
—
OctaneBench
—
175
Blender
—
1,528
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.