NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (215W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +70%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

5.914 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 +157%

10946

Radeon R9 390X

4245

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 20

Generation

Pirate 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

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/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

67.20 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

275W

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

Grenada

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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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