NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (215W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+75%
10.07 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 20
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
-
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
2816
184
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Vesuvius
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
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
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
