GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units 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 R9 290X		10609 points
	Difference: 11673 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 290X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 138752 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be a lot (approximately 44%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62240 (44%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is superior to the Radeon R9 290X, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39040 (76%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.