Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB - video card comparison

Radeon R9 290

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2013

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Core clock speed

947 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

10240

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

151.5

532.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

20 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

320 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

19 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3