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 RAM running at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, 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

The GeForce RTX 2070, in theory, should be quite a bit faster 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 (more or less 97%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is the winner, by a large margin. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.