Radeon R9 M370X vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The HBM RAM runs at a frequency of 500 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Nano should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 440000 (611%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano is quite a bit (about 700%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 224000 (700%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51200 (400%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.