
GeForce GTX 1080 and Radeon R9 M290X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R9 M290X
GeForce GTX 1080
16002
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
GeForce GTX 1080
Radeon R9 M290X
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Neptune
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2016
January 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
900 MHz
Compute units
-
20
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
-
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
100 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GPU Boost
3.0
-
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
+