GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280, which has a GPU core clock speed of 933 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 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 280		7961 points
	Difference: 14321 (180%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R9 280 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 218752 (91%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is quite a bit (approximately 94%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98544 (94%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is superior to the Radeon R9 280, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60384 (202%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one 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 - sometimes also referred to as 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.