GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a core clock frequency of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
	Difference: 8426 (253%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (118%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 will be 560% faster than the GeForce GTX 950M overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 179200 (560%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be much (about 224%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 81968 (224%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is quite a bit (more or less 103%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 950M, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15008 (103%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.