GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which features core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 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 390 8G		12733 points
	Difference: 9549 (75%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070 should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 390 8G in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be quite a bit (approximately 27%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 390 8G. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43040 (27%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be quite a bit (more or less 41%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 390 8G, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26240 (41%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.