GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with core clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M		60 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 560 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 965M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 50688 (79%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be quite a bit (about 24%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 965M. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		60416 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14784 (24%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 965M will be quite a bit (more or less 61%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 560, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M		30208 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11408 (61%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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