GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 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

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2060 Super should be 75% quicker than the Radeon RX 590 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is just a bit (more or less 6%) more effective at AF 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 will be much (about 100%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 590, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.