GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which comes with core speeds of 1605 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. 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)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should perform a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should be much (more or less 23%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 60000 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is superior to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2880 (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.