GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with GPU core speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2060 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 240064 (231%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (approximately 166%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102200 (166%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is quite a bit (more or less 272%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47920 (272%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 in one second.

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