GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480, which has core speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 480 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 245760 (94%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be much (about 96%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 155520 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high 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 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69760 (195%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many 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.