NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)
Lower TDP (180W vs 580W)
AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+57%
8.873 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X2
5.632 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Jun 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
2816
160
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
580W
450 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Hawaii
GP104-410-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
