GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280, which features core speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 280 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 267904 (112%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is a lot (approximately 203%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 212304 (203%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is superior to the Radeon R9 280, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 75744 (254%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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