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.

 

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 4579
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 498 495
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