GeForce RTX 3050 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3050 Ti |
| 140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X . |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR) |
| Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS) |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290X |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce RTX 3050 Ti | | Radeon R9 290X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GA106 (GA106-200-A1) | vs | Hawaii (Hawaii XT) |
| Fab Process | 8 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 300 mm² | vs | 438 mm² |
| Transistors | 13,250 million | vs | 6,200 million |
| Shaders | 3584 | vs | 2816 |
| Compute Units | 28 | vs | 44 |
| Core clock | 1350 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 112 | vs | 176 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce RTX 3050 Ti | | Radeon R9 290X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce RTX 3050 Ti | | Radeon R9 290X | |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | vs | 290 watts |
| Release Date | UNRELEASED | vs | 24 Oct 2013 |
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
108.00 GP/s
Radeon R9 290X
64.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
188.90 GT/s
Radeon R9 290X
176.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
336.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 290X
320.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
12090.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 290X
5632.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better