GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a core clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 230912 (361%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is quite a bit (about 301%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 132160 (301%)

Pixel Rate

If running with 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 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70464 (402%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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