GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (78%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 238336 (225%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be quite a bit (about 303%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 148848 (303%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55232 (169%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.