Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which comes with GPU core speed of 926 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
	Difference: 132 (49%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		30 Mh/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (11%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Nano should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 300800 (142%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano will be much (more or less 116%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 137472 (116%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is superior to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34368 (116%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.