GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with core speeds of 2200 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
	Difference: 42 Watts (65%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 83456 (130%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be a lot (more or less 221%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96960 (221%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is a lot (approximately 301%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 960M, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52864 (301%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.