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Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

The Radeon R9 Nano 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 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 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.

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

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Nano should theoretically be a lot superior to 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 will be a lot (about 59%) more effective at texture filtering 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 running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is the winner, and very much so. (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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 Nano Radeon RX 480 4GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year September 2015 June 2016
Code Name Fiji XT Polaris 10
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 1120 MHz
Memory Speed 500 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 175 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 512000 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 256000 Mtexels/sec 161280 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 64000 Mpixels/sec 35840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 4096 2304
Texture Mapping Units 256 144
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type HBM GDDR5
Bus Width 4096-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 8900 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 480 4GB”
Stephen Bender says:

Can you please add the Fury (non X), thank you!

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