AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano +203%

8.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Dec 2010

Pirate Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

24

4096

Shading Units

1536

256

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Cayman

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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