GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 285, which has GPU clock speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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 R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 13782 (162%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory be much better than the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 282752 (161%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be a lot (approximately 97%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 100224 (97%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60864 (207%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.