GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 290, which comes with core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs 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 R9 290		9876 points
	Difference: 12406 (126%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 290 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 138752 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is a lot (about 59%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75040 (59%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be much (approximately 76%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 290, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39040 (76%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.