GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 R9 390X 8G		13555 points
	Difference: 8727 (64%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 will be 19% quicker than the Radeon R9 390X 8G overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
	Difference: 74752 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is a little bit (more or less 10%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 390X 8G. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18240 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23040 (34%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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