NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1582MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +133%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +167%

9873

Radeon R9 290

3684

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

-

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

512bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2560

224

TMUs

160

88

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

471 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

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