Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce GTX 1080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (180W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
5632
GeForce GTX 1080
+57%
8873
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
May 2016
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
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.3GB/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
290W
TDP
180W
600 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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GP104
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
GP104-400-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
