Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which comes with GPU core speed of 1090 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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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
Radeon RX 460 2GB		117 Sol/s
	Difference: 285 (244%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Nano should be 357% quicker than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 400000 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be a lot (about 319%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194960 (319%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be a lot (approximately 267%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46560 (267%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.