Radeon R9 Nano vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 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 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (91%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 Nano overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
	Difference: 77824 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (about 141%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 Nano. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 360000 (141%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (about 285%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 Nano, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 182400 (285%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.