GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which has core speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should be 141% faster than the Radeon RX 590 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 368640 (141%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will be quite a bit (about 74%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 155664 (74%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71792 (153%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.