Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features a clock frequency of 1156 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1600 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, 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 RX Vega 56		21011 points
Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
	Difference: 6093 (41%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Nano will be 22% quicker than the Radeon RX Vega 56 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 92570 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a small bit (approximately 1%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2944 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is superior to the Radeon R9 Nano, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9984 (16%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.