AMD Radeon R9 290X VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

amd

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2816

Cores

320 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon R9 290X

N/A Oct 2013 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5X

Memory

2560

Cores

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1080

N/A May 2016 View Details

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

4GB GDDR5 290W N/A Oct 2013

Radeon R9 290X

$549 • Oct 2013

GeForce GTX 1080

$599 • May 2016

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

8GB GDDR5X 180W N/A May 2016

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon R9 290X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Memory Size	4 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5X
TDP	290 W	180 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	N/A	1733 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/s	320.3 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	16nm
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Pascal
Shading Units	2816	2560
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	176	160
ROPs	64	64
Memory Bus	512-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1250 MHz	1251 MHz
Pixel Rate	64 GPixel/s	110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320 GTexel/s	320.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	5.632 GFLOPS	8.873 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	1.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	438 mm²	314 mm²
Transistors	6200 Million	7200 Million
Required PSU	600 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12	12.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

3819

AMD Radeon R9 290X

7282 (+91%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

43410

AMD Radeon R9 290X

63994 (+47%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

89.1 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

8530

AMD Radeon R9 290X

15572 (+83%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+95%)

AVG 193 FPS

MIN 175 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+117%)

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 142 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+182%)

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 99 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+34%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+90%)

AVG 118 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+94%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+102%)

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+89%)

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+79%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+84%)

AVG 147 FPS

MIN 132 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+76%)

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 82 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+76%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+57%)

AVG 148 FPS

MIN 136 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+42%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+21%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+63%)

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 102 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+74%)

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+41%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Wins!

Based on 249 benchmarks across 84 games

Avg FPS

Radeon R9 290X

+86.7%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1080