GeForce RTX 2080 and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 2080
Radeon R9 280X2
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Turing TU104
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2018
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
3x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1710 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
1515 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
13,600 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2944
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
215 Watt
375 Watt
Texture fill rate
314.6
128.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
448.0 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
7.5
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.170
VR Ready
+
-