GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M330, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1030 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a speed of 900 MHz on this model. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960M, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R5 M330 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (344%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is quite a bit (approximately 113%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23240 (113%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the Radeon R5 M330, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9296 (113%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out 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 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.