GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which features GPU core speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 189184 (179%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (about 258%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 126848 (258%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be a lot (more or less 169%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 950, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55232 (169%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.