AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (180W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +57%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3929

GeForce GTX 1080 +91%

7534

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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