GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM set to run at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is made up of 3584 Stream Processors, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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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 be much 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 is a lot (more or less 58%) faster with regards to 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

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be just a bit (approximately 13%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 2060, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.