GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1250 MHz on this specific model. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 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 R9 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 11673 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2070 should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R9 290X in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be much (approximately 44%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62240 (44%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory 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 bandwidth is, the better 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 are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 reach the max fill rate.