GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 182912 (163%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (more or less 144%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 103872 (144%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51936 (144%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 one second.

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