GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 Nano, which has a core clock speed of 1000 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also makes use of a 4096-bit bus, and makes use of 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 GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 14078 (1676%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 119 Watts (213%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Nano, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 468800 (1085%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano will be a lot (about 1696%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 241744 (1696%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is superior to the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49744 (349%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

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

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