GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 should perform a small 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 should be quite a bit (about 27%) faster with regards to 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

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is the winner, by a large margin. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.