NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2016
Oct 2013
Generation
GeForce 10
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1607 MHz
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Boost Clock
1733 MHz
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Memory Clock
1251 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
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Shading Units
2560
2816
TMUs
160
176
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
—
44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
290W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
7,565
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,446
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Battlefield 5 1080p
128
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
32
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
62
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
99
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Battlefield 5 2160p
52
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Battlefield 5 1440p
97
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GTA 5 2160p
56
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GTA 5 1440p
74
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GTA 5 1080p
154
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.