GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 5750 512MB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5750 512MB, which comes with a clock frequency of 700 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1150 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 720(144x5) SPUs, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation 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 theoretically perform 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 will be quite a bit (about 74%) faster with regards to AF 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 a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.