GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1680 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units 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 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is a lot (more or less 64%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 105000 (64%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42000 (64%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.