GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280X, which comes with core speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2060 is 19% faster than the Radeon R9 280X in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56064 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be a lot (more or less 51%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55000 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is superior to the Radeon R9 280X, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38320 (141%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.