NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 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: 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 Quadro RTX 4000

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 1000 MHz
103x more texture fill rate: 222.5 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 160 Watt vs 580 Watt
Around 17% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 24.719 vs 21.128

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 November 2018 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed	1005 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	222.5 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt vs 580 Watt
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	24.719 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

2.2x more pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 2304
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 8 GB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective)

Pipelines	2x 2560 vs 2304
Maximum memory size	2x 8 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

24.719

21.128

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Geekbench - OpenCL	85558
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	282.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3403.106
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	24.719	21.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	136.919
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1010.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7856

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU104	Grenada
GCN generation	Quadro RTX
Launch date	13 November 2018	3 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$899	$1,399
Place in performance rating	195	246
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	1005 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	222.5 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	14.24 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.119 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304	2x 2560
Pixel fill rate	98.88 GPixel/s
Render output units	64
Texture fill rate	222.5 GTexel/s	2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	13600 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,120 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	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	9.5 inches (241 mm)
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth	416.0 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective)	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5