NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 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 Super

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 65% higher core clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 580 Watt
2.6x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Around 50% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 31.631 vs 21.128

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 July 2019 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed	1650 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	31.631 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Around 67% higher pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 3072
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 8 GB

Pipelines	2x 2560 vs 3072
Maximum memory size	2x 8 GB vs 8 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

31.631

21.128

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	19608
PassMark - G2D Mark	927
Geekbench - OpenCL	117526
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	337.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	4566.815
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	31.631	21.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	190.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1654.321
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU104	Grenada
Launch date	23 July 2019	3 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	$1,399
Place in performance rating	109	247
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1815 MHz
Core clock speed	1650 MHz	1000 MHz
CUDA cores	3072
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	89 C
Pipelines	3072	2x 2560
Render output units	64
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	580 Watt
Floating-point performance		2x 5,120 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count		6,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Port	1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	4.556” (115.7mm)
Length	10.5” (266.74mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	6 pin + 8 pin	4x 8-pin
Width	2-Slot
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth	496 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready