NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 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 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +78%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 +178%

10946

Radeon R9 290X

3925

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

46

SM Count

-

2944

Shading Units

2816

184

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

290W

550 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

545 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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