GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280X, which comes with core speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

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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 280X		8886 points
	Difference: 13396 (151%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R9 280X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
	Difference: 170752 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be quite a bit (approximately 87%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94240 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63040 (232%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.