GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
	Difference: 1271 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 39322 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be quite a bit (about 28%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55904 (28%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is a lot (more or less 22%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX Vega 56, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16256 (22%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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