GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (31%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be just a bit (approximately 2%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2520 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is superior to the Radeon RX 480, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29680 (83%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip 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 ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.