GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2816 SPUs, 176 TAUs, 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

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2060 is 8% faster than the Radeon R9 290X in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be a bit (more or less 16%) more effective 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 should be much (about 28%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 290X, and 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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.