Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 2080 Super - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
20173
Radeon R9 290
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Turing TU104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
July 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1815 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1650 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
13,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
348.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
15500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
495.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
VR Ready
-
+