GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700, which features a clock frequency of 1465 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (227%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 426752 (1334%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be quite a bit (approximately 477%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 174400 (477%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 79136 (541%)

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 transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.