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GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

The GeForce RTX 2060 makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a frequency of 14000 MHz on this specific card. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with core speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 14000 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same bandwidth, so in theory they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is quite a bit (about 21%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34200 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22480 (34%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce RTX 2060	Radeon RX 5600 XT
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	January 2019	January 2020
Code Name	TU106-200A-KA-A1	Navi 10 XLE
Memory	6144 MB	6144 MB
Core Speed	1365 MHz	1375 MHz
Memory Speed	14000 GB/s	14000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP)	160 watts	160 watts
Bandwidth	344064 MB/sec	344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate	163800 Mtexels/sec	198000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	65520 Mpixels/sec	88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	1920	2304
Texture Mapping Units	120	144
Render Output Units	48	64
Bus Type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Bus Width	192-bit	192-bit
Fab Process	12 nm	7 nm
Transistors	10800 million	10300 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 12
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.6	OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 max fill rate.

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