GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which features a core clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 will be 56% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 163840 (56%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 will be quite a bit (approximately 58%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102760 (58%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is superior to the Radeon RX 5600, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8960 (10%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.