GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
	Difference: 1271 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2070 is 9% quicker than the Radeon RX Vega 56 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 39322 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (about 28%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55904 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is superior to the Radeon RX Vega 56, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16256 (22%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card 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 amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.