GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280X, which comes with core speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 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 280X		8886 points
	Difference: 13396 (151%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 will be 59% faster than the Radeon R9 280X overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
	Difference: 170752 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be quite a bit (about 87%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94240 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is superior to the Radeon R9 280X, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63040 (232%)

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.