NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB 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 3080 Ti 20 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB +505%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1335 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

512bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

80

SM Count

-

10240

Shading Units

2816

320

TMUs

176

112

ROPs

64

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

290W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

628 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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