Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has a clock speed of 1156 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1600 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
	Difference: 6093 (41%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Nano should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 92570 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be just a bit (about 1%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2944 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be just a bit (about 16%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 Nano, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9984 (16%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.