GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which features clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2060 Super will be 75% quicker than the Radeon RX 590 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 196608 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is a bit (approximately 6%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060 Super. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060 Super		199920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11616 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super should be a lot (about 100%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super		94080 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47072 (100%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.