GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs Radeon R9 M290X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1095MHz vs 900MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q
+179%
6447
Radeon R9 M290X
2304
Graphics Card
Jan 2019
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 20 Mobile
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
1280
184
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
70.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
201.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
12.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.447 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
201.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Neptune
N18E-G3-A1
GPU Variant
Neptune XT
(216-0847000)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
