GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Radeon R9 290X2

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

GP104

Hawaii

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

June 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

4x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1733 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

1000 MHz

Floating-point performance

8,873 gflops

2x 5,632 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

6,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

2816

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

580 Watt

Texture fill rate

277.3

176.0

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

11008 MHz

5400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

352.3 GB/s

345.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.3

Vulkan

1.2.131