NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1815MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +129%

11.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +213%

11549

Radeon R9 290

3681

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1650 MHz

Base Clock

-

1815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

495.9GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

3072

Shading Units

2560

192

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

384

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

116.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

348.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

22.30 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

348.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU104-450-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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