GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 290X, which has GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory be a small bit superior to the Radeon R9 290X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24064 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is just a bit (approximately 16%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23000 (16%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (more or less 28%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14320 (28%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.