NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 290

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 290 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 290

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
525.9x more texture fill rate: 79.68 GTexel/s vs 151.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
9.2x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 275 Watt

Launch date	17 Dec 2021 vs 5 November 2013
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s vs 151.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 275 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 947 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
2.9x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 481
Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8213 vs 7769
2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 102277 vs 43517
14.6x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3699 vs 254

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	947 MHz vs 735 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 2048
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	766 vs 481
PassMark - G3D Mark	8213 vs 7769
Geekbench - OpenCL	102277 vs 43517
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3699 vs 254

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

481

766

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7769

8213

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

43517

102277

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

254

3699

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 290
PassMark - G2D Mark	481	766
PassMark - G3D Mark	7769	8213
Geekbench - OpenCL	43517	102277
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	254	3699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		89.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1366.314
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		10.034
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		98.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		540.645
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6300
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6300
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3354

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 290
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 2.0
Code name	GA107	Hawaii
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	5 November 2013
Place in performance rating	340	343
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	947 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	159.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.100 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	2560
Pixel fill rate	39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s	151.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	275 Watt
Floating-point performance		4,849 gflops
Transistor count		6,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	275 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	320.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)