GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which has a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 960M		4350 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 843 (24%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 550, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 50688 (79%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is a lot (more or less 25%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8640 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be just a bit (approximately 0%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960M, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64 (0%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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