GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280, which features a core clock frequency of 933 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 104064 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (more or less 57%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 59304 (57%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35664 (119%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.