GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is quite a bit (more or less 303%) better at 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 using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 950, 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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.