GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480, which comes with a clock speed of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 480 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (31%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is a bit (approximately 2%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2520 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29680 (83%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.