GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6800, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1700 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6800 should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
	Difference: 16384 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 will be quite a bit (more or less 29%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 91200 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is superior to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57600 (55%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.