GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 590, which has a core clock frequency of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory be much faster than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (31%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 will be quite a bit (about 29%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47736 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (about 39%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18512 (39%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.