GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 Super should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 39322 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a little bit (more or less 1%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2144 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 Super is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28736 (39%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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