GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has a clock frequency of 1156 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1600 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 75366 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a lot (about 58%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 95144 (58%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8464 (13%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.