GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 Nano, which features core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs 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
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 7291 (96%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 248 (161%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		30 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 19 (173%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Nano should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 400000 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano will be quite a bit (about 255%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 183872 (255%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be much (about 77%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27936 (77%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.