AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
2.6x more pipelines: 4096 vs 2x 800
4.1x better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 250 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 7 November 2008
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	4096 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

4x more memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 500 MHz

Memory clock speed	1990 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 Nano
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4607
PassMark - G3D Mark		1132
PassMark - G2D Mark		542

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	TeraScale
Code name	Fiji	R700
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$649	$420
Place in performance rating	491	244
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	4096	2x 800
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	956 million
Core clock speed		625 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
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
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	152 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.1
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR3
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