Radeon R9 Fury X vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which has a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a HBM memory speed of 500 MHz. It also uses a 4096-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 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 R9 Nano		14918 points
Radeon R9 Fury X		14793 points
	Difference: 125 (1%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		450 Sol/s
Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
	Difference: 48 (12%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Fury X		30 Mh/s
Radeon R9 Nano		30 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be a little bit (about 5%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12800 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3200 (5%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.