GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has a core clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (78%)

Memory Bandwidth

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

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 238336 (225%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 303%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 148848 (303%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.