GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which features GPU clock speed of 1855 MHz, and 24576 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2500 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 6144 Stream Processors, 384 Texture Address Units, and 192 Raster Operation Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 195 Watts (122%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be 186% faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 638976 (186%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be a lot (more or less 335%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 548520 (335%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 290640 (444%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.