GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should be 334% faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall, because of its higher data rate. (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 quite a bit (about 422%) more effective at texture 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 a high screen resolution 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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.