GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which features a core clock speed of 1000 MHz and a HBM memory speed of 500 MHz. It also uses a 4096-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 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
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 8382 (128%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		30 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 20 (200%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 247 (159%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (94%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Nano should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 406272 (384%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be a lot (about 421%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 206848 (421%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31232 (95%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.