GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380X, which has GPU core speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, 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 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2060 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 380X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 161664 (89%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is much (approximately 32%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39640 (32%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34480 (111%)

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 moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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