GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The HBM memory works at a frequency of 500 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 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.

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Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
	Difference: 91 (29%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 2559 (21%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Nano is 160% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 315392 (160%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be quite a bit (approximately 112%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135520 (112%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8288 (13%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.