NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 390X 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 390X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1245 MHz vs 1050 MHz
431.2x more texture fill rate: 79.68 GTexel/s vs 184.8 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
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Launch date	17 Dec 2021 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

Around 38% higher pipelines: 2816 vs 2048
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 824 vs 473
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9412 vs 7707
Around 8% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4242 vs 3924

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2816 vs 2048
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	824 vs 473
PassMark - G3D Mark	9412 vs 7707
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4242 vs 3924

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

473

824

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7707

9412

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

3924

4242

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 390X
PassMark - G2D Mark	473	824
PassMark - G3D Mark	7707	9412
Geekbench - OpenCL	43327
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3924	4242
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		683.568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 390X
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 2.0
Code name	GA107	Grenada
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	18 June 2015
Place in performance rating	293	292
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$429
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	735 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	2816
Pixel fill rate	39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s	184.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	275 Watt
Compute units		44
Floating-point performance		5,914 gflops
Stream Processors		2816
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
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
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	1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Mantle
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	384 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	512 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1050 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore