GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 285, which has clock speeds of 918 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2070 Super should in theory be much better than the Radeon R9 285 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 282752 (161%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 Super is quite a bit (more or less 150%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 153984 (150%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution 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 R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73344 (250%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.