GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is 94% quicker than the Radeon RX 590 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 245760 (94%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should be much (about 50%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 105264 (50%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is much (more or less 125%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 590, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58592 (125%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.