NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

270% significantly better overall score

1919 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

161 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

39 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points

178% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3950 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46328 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

49594 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43704 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

51251 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

71% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

10% slightly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s

70% significantly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

96% significantly higher texture rate

160 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

96% significantly better floating point performance

5.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

15% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

15% slightly more texture mapping units

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 586

215th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon R9 390 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390 at 275 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 is faster than the Radeon R9 390.