GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (191%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 312064 (975%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be a lot (about 442%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 161440 (442%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73376 (502%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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