GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular model. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 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 R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon R9 290 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 187904 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should be much (more or less 148%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 188800 (148%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is superior to the Radeon R9 290, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54400 (106%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure 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 card will be at handling 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 chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.