NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
95.3x more texture fill rate: 207.4 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
7.3x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 580 Watt

Launch date	2 Apr 2020 vs 24 June 2014
Texture fill rate	207.4 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 83% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 3072
3.9x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1375 MHz (11000 MHz effective)

Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 735 MHz
Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 3072
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 1375 MHz (11000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	13796
PassMark - G2D Mark	582
Geekbench - OpenCL	82601
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8579
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU104B	Hawaii
Launch date	2 Apr 2020	24 June 2014
Place in performance rating	136	282
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1080 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	207.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	13.27 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.636 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	69.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	207.4 GTexel/s	2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	13600 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,632 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	4x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	352.0 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz (11000 MHz effective)	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5