Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 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 550		3507 points
	Difference: 11411 (325%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (250%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Nano should in theory be much better than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 397312 (346%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano is a lot (more or less 627%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 220800 (627%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano is much (more or less 264%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46400 (264%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.