GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which comes with core speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 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

Radeon VII		27400 points
GeForce RTX 2080		26155 points
	Difference: 1245 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (37%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII should be 129% quicker than the GeForce RTX 2080 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 589824 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is a lot (approximately 21%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 2080. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57240 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 should be a bit (approximately 8%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon VII, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7360 (8%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.