Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 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.

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Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
Radeon RX 460 2GB		117 Sol/s
	Difference: 285 (244%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Nano should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 400000 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano will be a lot (more or less 319%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194960 (319%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46560 (267%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at 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 the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.