Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which has core clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
Radeon RX 460		5595 points
	Difference: 9323 (167%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Nano should in theory be much better than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano will be much (more or less 319%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano is a lot (about 267%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling 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 per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.