GeForce 940M vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much faster than the GeForce 940M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 328064 (2050%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a lot (approximately 670%) better at AF than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 172272 (670%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the GeForce 940M, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 79424 (926%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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 reach the max fill rate.