AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +726%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

60

2560

Shading Units

7680

160

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

285W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

AD104

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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