NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (180W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +57%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +92%

7536

Radeon R9 290X

3925

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

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

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/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

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP104-400-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

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