Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which has clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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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 R9 270X		6590 points
	Difference: 8328 (126%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
	Difference: 225 (127%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		30 Mh/s
Radeon R9 270X		18 Mh/s
	Difference: 12 (67%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Nano, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 270X overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 332800 (186%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano will be much (about 220%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 176000 (220%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution 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 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32000 (100%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.