GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which has a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 403904 (388%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is much (approximately 414%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 255200 (414%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 88000 (500%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.