Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which features core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator 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 295X2		21205 points
Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
	Difference: 6287 (42%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 325 Watts (186%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 Nano in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be quite a bit (approximately 40%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102336 (40%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the Radeon R9 Nano, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66304 (104%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.