GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 198912 (207%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be a lot (approximately 138%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102080 (138%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit (about 98%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 970M, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43648 (98%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.