GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 285, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 918 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1375 MHz on this specific model. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2060 is 95% quicker than the Radeon R9 285 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 168064 (95%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (about 59%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 60984 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36144 (123%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.