GeForce RTX 4080 vs Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2505MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
7168 additional rendering cores
Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Lower TDP (275W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
+905%
48740
Radeon R9 290
4849
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4080
+662%
28173
Radeon R9 290
3694
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 40
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2205 MHz
Base Clock
-
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
76
SM Count
-
9728
Shading Units
2560
304
TMUs
160
112
ROPs
64
304
Tensor Cores
-
76
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
275W
700 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
Hawaii
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
379 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.3
