NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB +170%

15.21 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

72

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

4608

Shading Units

2816

288

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

475.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

30.41 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

475.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU102-350-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

754 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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