Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Nano, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The HBM memory runs at a speed of 500 MHz on this specific card. 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 Nano		14918 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 10537 (241%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		30 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 16 (114%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 307 (323%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (52%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Nano should be 392% faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 408000 (392%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be much (about 316%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194400 (316%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46400 (264%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.