AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +45%

8.192 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X

3925

Radeon R9 Nano +17%

4607

Radeon R9 290X

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

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

64

-

2816

Shading Units

4096

176

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

175W

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Fiji

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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