Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which has a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also uses a 4096-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 13798 (1232%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Nano should be 3100% quicker than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 496000 (3100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano is quite a bit (more or less 1392%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 238840 (1392%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58280 (1019%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range 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 is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.