GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which has a clock frequency of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 will be 2% faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 2688 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a bit (more or less 4%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3072 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is quite a bit (about 92%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 560, and also able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17264 (92%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.