AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano +40%

8.192 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 Nano +10%

4607

Radeon RX 480

4164

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon R9 Nano +64%

28

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon R9 Nano +71%

60

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon R9 Nano +50%

75

Radeon RX 480

50

Radeon R9 Nano

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jun 2016

Pirate Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

36

-

4096

Shading Units

2304

256

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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