GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which has a clock speed of 1605 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory 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 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 346752 (310%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 256%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 184672 (256%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66656 (185%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many 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.