GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M		60 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 will be 361% quicker than the GeForce GTX 965M in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 230912 (361%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be quite a bit (approximately 191%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 965M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		60416 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 115584 (191%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		30208 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57792 (191%)

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 transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.