GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 580, which has core speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 Super should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 580 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 196608 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 Super should be much (approximately 42%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 580. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75792 (42%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 Super is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62496 (155%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.