AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 320W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +765%

48.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3929

GeForce RTX 4080 +619%

28257

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2205 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

9728

176

TMUs

304

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

AD103

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

320W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 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

6.7

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