GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare all of that 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 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be 11% faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 49152 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should be a bit (approximately 18%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48000 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is superior to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1920 (2%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.