Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which has a clock speed of 1825 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 4608 SPUs, 288 Texture Address Units, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6800 XT should be just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 Nano overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		524288 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12288 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 105%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 269600 (105%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT will be quite a bit (about 265%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 Nano, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 169600 (265%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.