GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which has a clock speed of 1605 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, 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 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 353024 (334%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is much (about 422%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 207648 (422%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69952 (213%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied in a second.

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