GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which features a core clock speed of 1365 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It is made up of 1920 SPUs, 120 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (128%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 590 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
	Difference: 15744 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be a lot (approximately 111%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86104 (111%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is superior to the GeForce GTX 590, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7248 (12%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the 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 better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.