GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon VII is 106% faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
	Difference: 540672 (106%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is a little bit (about 6%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19200 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is superior to the Radeon VII, but only just. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16000 (18%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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