GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 280X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 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 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2060 is 19% faster than the Radeon R9 280X in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56064 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (more or less 51%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55000 (51%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be quite a bit (more or less 141%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 280X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38320 (141%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 number of pixels the video 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 number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.