NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 36.6x more texture fill rate: 79.68 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
  • 19.3x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 580 Watt
Launch date 17 Dec 2021 vs 24 June 2014
Texture fill rate 79.68 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

  • Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • 2.8x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2048
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 735 MHz
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 2x 4 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G2D Mark 469
PassMark - G3D Mark 7662
Geekbench - OpenCL 43231
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3924
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 2.0
Code name GA107 Hawaii
Launch date 17 Dec 2021 24 June 2014
Place in performance rating 295 292
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1245 MHz
Core clock speed 735 MHz 1000 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 2x 2816
Pixel fill rate 39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 79.68 GTexel/s 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 580 Watt
Floating-point performance 2x 5,632 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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 229 mm, 9 inches
Supplementary power connectors None 4x 8-pin
Width 113 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.0 GB/s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 5400 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5