GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 590, which comes with clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will be 141% quicker than the Radeon RX 590 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 368640 (141%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will be a lot (approximately 74%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 155664 (74%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will be much (about 153%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71792 (153%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of 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 amount of Render Output Units by the clock 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.