GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700, which has a core clock frequency of 1465 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M		60 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 is 617% quicker than the GeForce GTX 965M overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 394752 (617%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot (about 249%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 965M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		60416 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 150544 (249%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is superior to the GeForce GTX 965M, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		30208 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63552 (210%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.