GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has core speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (146%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 960M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 280064 (438%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be a lot (approximately 352%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 154160 (352%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 960M, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70464 (402%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.