GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs Radeon R9 Fury

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	219	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	79
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	8.15	no data
Power efficiency	6.20	no data
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Fiji	GA107
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	10 July 2015 (9 years ago)	17 December 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$549	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3584	2048
Compute units	56	no data
Core clock speed	no data	832 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1155 MHz
Number of transistors	8,900 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	275 Watt	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	224.0	73.92
Floating-point processing power	7.168 TFLOPS	4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	224	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	​2x 8-pin	None
Bridgeless CrossFire	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR6
High bandwidth memory (HBM)	+	no data
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	96 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity	+	-
Number of Eyefinity displays	6	no data
HDMI	+	+
DisplayPort support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration	+	-
CrossFire	+	-
FRTC	+	-
FreeSync	+	-
HD3D	+	-
LiquidVR	+	-
PowerTune	+	-
TressFX	+	-
TrueAudio	+	-
UVD	+	-
VCE	+	-
DDMA audio	+	no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	DirectX® 12	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.3	6.7
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	+	1.3
Mantle	+	-
CUDA	-	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	10 July 2015	17 December 2021
Chip lithography	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	275 Watt	30 Watt

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