NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2505MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +765%

48.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 +620%

28272

Radeon R9 290X

3925

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

-

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

76

SM Count

-

9728

Shading Units

2816

304

TMUs

176

112

ROPs

64

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

290W

700 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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Hawaii

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

379 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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