Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (91%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory perform a bit faster than the Radeon R9 Nano in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 77824 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 141%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 360000 (141%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot (more or less 285%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 Nano, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 182400 (285%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many 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.