GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with a core clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be a little bit (more or less 3%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5040 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is superior to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2240 (3%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.