GeForce 940M vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5600 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce 940M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 278912 (1743%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be quite a bit (approximately 584%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 150272 (584%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the GeForce 940M, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 79424 (926%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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