Radeon R9 290X and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290X
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
GP102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
-
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1670 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
11,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
3200
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
334.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
11 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
528.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-