GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

The Radeon VII should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII will be a little bit (approximately 6%) faster with regards to texture 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

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should be a small bit (more or less 18%) better at FSAA than the Radeon VII, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.