GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5750 1GB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 700 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1150 MHz on this particular model. It features 720(144x5) SPUs along with 36 Texture Address Units 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 1GB		86 Watts
	Difference: 21 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB should theoretically perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		73600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (15%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M will be quite a bit (approximately 74%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 5750 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 1GB		25200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18640 (74%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the Radeon HD 5750 1GB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 1GB		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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.