GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which comes with a clock speed of 1605 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (41%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be a lot (more or less 57%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 93000 (57%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is a lot (approximately 57%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 2060, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37200 (57%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.