GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 5750 512MB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5750 512MB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 700 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1150 MHz on this particular card. It features 720(144x5) SPUs along with 36 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		86 Watts
	Difference: 21 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5750 512MB should in theory be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 512MB		73600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (15%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is a lot (more or less 74%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5750 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		25200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18640 (74%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		11200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6336 (57%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.