AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

  • 8.4x more texture fill rate: 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 256.0 GTexel / s
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 4096
  • Around 25% better floating-point performance: 2x 5,120 gflops vs 8,192 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 10.8x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 256.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 2560 vs 4096
Floating-point performance 2x 5,120 gflops vs 8,192 gflops
Maximum memory size 2x 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 580 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 580 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Name AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 AMD Radeon R9 Nano
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.128
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4579

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Grenada Fiji
Launch date 3 September 2015 27 August 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399 $649
Place in performance rating 264 261
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series

Technical info

Core clock speed 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 5,120 gflops 8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2x 2560 4096
Texture fill rate 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec 256.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 580 Watt 175 Watt
Transistor count 6,200 million 8,900 million
Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Compute units 64
Stream Processors 4096

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 4x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 152 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 2x 345.6 GB / s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 2x 512 Bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore