AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +315%

8.192 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon R9 Nano +212%

4607

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

64

896

Shading Units

4096

56

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Fiji

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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