GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (128%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2060 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 590 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
	Difference: 15744 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be quite a bit (approximately 111%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86104 (111%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7248 (12%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.