GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce RTX 2060 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 151388 (44%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (about 116%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 189992 (116%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22928 (35%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.