GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which features core speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3090 should in theory be much better than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 696524 (266%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 will be quite a bit (approximately 116%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 246024 (116%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 will be a lot (more or less 232%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 590, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 109232 (232%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.