GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which features a clock speed of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 176 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 285 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 181248 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is quite a bit (approximately 40%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 101536 (40%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be quite a bit (approximately 27%) more effective at AA than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		102720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27584 (27%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.