NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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. 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 390 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 52% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 215 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): 31.684 vs 21.128

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 September 2018 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed	1515 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	215 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	31.684 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Around 74% higher pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 2944

Pipelines	2x 2560 vs 2944

Compare benchmarks

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

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

31.684

21.128

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	18815
PassMark - G2D Mark	912
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	21.128
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	10966

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU104	Grenada
Launch date	20 September 2018	3 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	$1,399
Place in performance rating	98	246
Price now	$749.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	32.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz
Core clock speed	1515 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2944	2x 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	215 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	13,600 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,120 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 345.6 GB / s