GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which has GPU core speed of 926 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon RX 470 4GB overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 132864 (63%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (more or less 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45272 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is a lot (more or less 121%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35888 (121%)

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 moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.