AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano and AMD Radeon R9 M295X 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • 2.8x more texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 4096 vs 2048
  • 2.8x better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 2,961 gflops
  • Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 250 Watt
Launch date 27 August 2015 vs 23 November 2014
Texture fill rate 256.0 GTexel / s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 2048
Floating-point performance 8,192 gflops vs 2,961 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 Nano
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M295X

Name AMD Radeon R9 Nano AMD Radeon R9 M295X
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4579
PassMark - G3D Mark 5150
PassMark - G2D Mark 832
Geekbench - OpenCL 26950
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 820.138
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 68.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 386.418
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2045
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3144
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2045
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3144

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano AMD Radeon R9 M295X

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Fiji Amethyst
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 27 August 2015 23 November 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Place in performance rating 498 499
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Compute units 64
Floating-point performance 8,192 gflops 2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 4096 2048
Stream Processors 4096
Texture fill rate 256.0 GTexel / s 92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 8,900 million 5,000 million
Core clock speed 723 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0 PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 152 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 Not Listed
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0 Not Listed
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz
Memory type High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Not Listed
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

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