GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1825 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 4608 SPUs, 288 Texture Address Units, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6800 XT should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is quite a bit (about 66%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208800 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 128000 (121%)

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 transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.