Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which comes with core clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
	Difference: 135 (51%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		30 Mh/s
Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (20%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Nano should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 480 4GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 282624 (123%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be much (more or less 59%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94720 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen 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 RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28160 (79%)

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 moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card 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 ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill 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 max fill rate.