GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
	Difference: 1271 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2070 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 39322 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (more or less 28%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 2070. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55904 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16256 (22%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.