NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 68% higher boost clock speed: 1710 MHz vs 1018 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: 215 Watt vs 500 Watt
11.2x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18811 vs 8621
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 912 vs 768

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 September 2018 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	215 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	18811 vs 8621
PassMark - G2D Mark	912 vs 768

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Around 91% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2944

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2944

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

18811

8621

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

912

768

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	18811	8621
PassMark - G2D Mark	912	768
Geekbench - OpenCL	102535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	326.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3938.377
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	31.684
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	159.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1506.874
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6293
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	10970	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU104	Vesuvius
Launch date	20 September 2018	29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	$1,499
Place in performance rating	98	174
Price now	$749.99	$1,099.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	32.34	11.14
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz	1018 MHz
Core clock speed	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2944	2x 2816
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	215 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	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	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
Length	267 mm	307 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 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)