GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which features core clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 560 should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 8960 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be quite a bit (approximately 53%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26048 (53%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13968 (74%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one 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 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.