GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M330, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1030 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 Stream Processors, 20 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960M should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon R5 M330 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (344%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be quite a bit (approximately 113%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23240 (113%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be a lot (more or less 113%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R5 M330, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9296 (113%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at 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 record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.