GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which features a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 2816 SPUs, 176 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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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 R9 390X 8G		13555 points
	Difference: 8727 (64%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2070 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 390X 8G in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
	Difference: 74752 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be a small bit (approximately 10%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 390X 8G. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18240 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is superior to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23040 (34%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock 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 faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.