GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270X, which features core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 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 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2060 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R9 270X in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 164864 (92%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (about 105%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 83800 (105%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA 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 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33520 (105%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.