GeForce GTX 950M 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 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (45%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 950M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 82688 (258%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be quite a bit (about 106%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38640 (106%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be much (about 29%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 950M, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4176 (29%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.