GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1280 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2060 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 270X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be quite a bit (approximately 105%) better at anisotropic filtering 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 a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, by a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.