AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (616.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +138%

13.45 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3925

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +271%

14594

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1350 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

352bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

616.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

68

2816

Shading Units

4352

176

TMUs

272

64

ROPs

88

-

Tensor Cores

544

-

RT Cores

68

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

0 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

136.0 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.90 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.45 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

420.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

TU102

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

TU102-300A-K1-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

754 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

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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