AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs ATI Radeon X850 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano and ATI Radeon X850 XT 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 X850 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 8 month(s) later
30.8x more texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 1 December 2004
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 69 Watt vs 175 Watt
2.2x more memory clock speed: 1080 MHz vs 500 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	69 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 Nano
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 XT

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	ATI Radeon X850 XT
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4607
PassMark - G3D Mark		81
PassMark - G2D Mark		326

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	ATI Radeon X850 XT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	R400
Code name	Fiji	R480
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	1 December 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	491	494
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4096
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	69 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	160 million
Core clock speed		520 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x 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 1.0 x16
Length	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0b
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	34.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1080 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