AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano +15%

8.192 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 Nano

4607

Radeon RX 590 +3%

4760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon R9 Nano +16%

28

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon R9 Nano +30%

60

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon R9 Nano +5%

75

Radeon RX 590

71

Radeon R9 Nano

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Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Nov 2018

Pirate Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 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

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

36

4096

Shading Units

2304

256

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

175W

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 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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