Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce RTX 2080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (215W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
GeForce RTX 2080
+75%
10070
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Sep 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1515 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
2816
Shading Units
2944
176
TMUs
184
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
368
-
RT Cores
46
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
109.4 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
314.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
20.14 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.07 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
314.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
215W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
TU104
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
TU104-400A-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
13.6 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
545 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
6.3
Shader Model
6.6