AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Ti 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 400W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (678.4GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

11264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Ti +1205%

73.5 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 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

2340 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1325 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

678.4GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

110

2816

Shading Units

14080

176

TMUs

440

64

ROPs

144

-

Tensor Cores

440

-

RT Cores

110

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

80 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

375.8 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1148 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

73.50 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

73.50 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1148 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

400W

600 W

Suggested PSU

800 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

AD102

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

AD102-225-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

609 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

6.7

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