Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 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 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

In theory, the Radeon R9 Nano should perform a small bit faster than 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 much (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

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (more or less 38%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 Nano, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.