GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 285, which features GPU clock speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 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 R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060 should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 168064 (95%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be a lot (approximately 59%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 60984 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is superior to the Radeon R9 285, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36144 (123%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.