GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Nano, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The HBM RAM runs at a speed of 500 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		402 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
	Difference: 112 (39%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 Nano		30 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (58%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
	Difference: 2733 (22%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Nano is 160% faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 315392 (160%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be a lot (approximately 136%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 147568 (136%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be a bit (more or less 13%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 Nano, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.