GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon RX 5600 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 163840 (56%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be just a bit (approximately 15%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27040 (15%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is a little bit (more or less 3%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 5600, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2240 (3%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number 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 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.