GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 590, which has clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be 94% quicker than the Radeon RX 590 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 245760 (94%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be much (about 50%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 105264 (50%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58592 (125%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.