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Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

The Radeon R9 295X2 uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific model. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM memory running at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 Stream Processors, 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 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

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 295X2 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 Nano overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be much (approximately 40%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is the winner, by far. (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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 295X2 Radeon R9 Nano
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year April 2014 September 2015
Code Name Vesuvius Fiji XT
Memory 4096 MB (x2) 4096 MB
Core Speed 1018 MHz (x2) 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz (x2) 500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 500 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 640000 MB/sec 512000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 358336 Mtexels/sec 256000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 130304 Mpixels/sec 64000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2816 (x2) 4096
Texture Mapping Units 176 (x2) 256
Render Output Units 64 (x2) 64
Bus Type GDDR5 HBM
Bus Width 512-bit (x2) 4096-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 6200 million 8900 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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