Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with core speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
	Difference: 6461 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Nano should theoretically be a bit superior to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
	Difference: 16548 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (about 38%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 97792 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the Radeon R9 Nano, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24448 (38%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.