AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1582MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +101%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Mar 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1481 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1582 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

352bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

484.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

3584

176

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

88

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

139.2 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

354.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

177.2 GFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

354.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP102

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GP102-350-K1-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

250W

950 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 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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