NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1095 MHz vs 1018 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 500 Watt
9.6x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Around 52% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13147 vs 8621

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1095 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	13147 vs 8621

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Around 91% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2944
Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 536

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2944
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	768 vs 536

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13147

8621

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

536

768

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	13147	8621
PassMark - G2D Mark	536	768
Geekbench - OpenCL	81953
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	297.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3676.805
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	162.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1116.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	19139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8905
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8060
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	19139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8905
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8060
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7990	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU104B	Vesuvius
Launch date	29 January 2019	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	142	174
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1095 MHz	1018 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2944	2x 2816
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	13,600 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Texture fill rate		2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Length		307 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2 x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		640 GB/s
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)