AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)
Lower TDP (180W vs 580W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X2
5.632 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+57%
8.873 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2014
Release Date
Apr 2017
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
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
345.6GB/s
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
2816
Shading Units
2560
176
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
580W
TDP
180W
950 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
4x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GP104
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
GP104-410-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
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.3
Shader Model
6.4
