NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (616.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +177%

13.45 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +296%

14594

Radeon R9 290

3684

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

512bit

616.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

68

SM Count

-

4352

Shading Units

2560

272

TMUs

160

88

ROPs

64

544

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

136.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

420.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

26.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.45 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

420.2 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 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU102-300A-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

754 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

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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