nvidia
Brand10GB GDDR6X
Memory8704
Cores760.3 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
amd
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory2560
Cores320 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R9 290
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
GeForce RTX 3080
$699 • Aug 2020
Radeon R9 290
$399 • Nov 2013
AMD Radeon R9 290
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | AMD Radeon R9 290 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 10 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 320 W | 275 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1710 MHz | N/A |
| Memory Bandwidth | 760.3 GB/s | 320 GB/s |
| Process Size | 8nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 8704 | 2560 |
| RT Cores | 68 | N/A |
| TMUs | 272 | 160 |
| ROPs | 96 | 64 |
| Memory Bus | 320-bit | 512-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1188 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 164.2 GPixel/s | 60.61 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 760.3 GTexel/s | 320 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 29.77 GFLOPS | 4.849 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 5.00 MB | 1.00 MB |
| Die Size | 628 mm² | 438 mm² |
| Transistors | 28300 Million | 6200 Million |
| Required PSU | 700 W | 600 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Radeon R9 290
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Radeon R9 290
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Radeon R9 290
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Radeon R9 290
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
NVIDIA • 10GB GDDR6X
AMD Radeon R9 290
AMD • 4GB GDDR5
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