Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated21
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.61
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU104Navi 31
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)27 July 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores30725120
Core clock speed1515 MHz1287 MHz
Boost clock speed1710 MHz2245 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)215 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate328.3718.4
Floating-point processing power10.51 TFLOPS45.98 TFLOPS
ROPs64160
TMUs192320
Tensor Cores384no data
Ray Tracing Cores4880

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm276 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s576.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.2
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 215 Watt 260 Watt

RTX 2080 Engineering Sample has 20.9% lower power consumption.

RX 7900 GRE, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample and Radeon RX 7900 GRE. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample
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