AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GRID K240Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano and NVIDIA GRID K240Q 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GRID K240Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.7x more texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 95.36 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1536
3.6x better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 2,289 gflops
Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 225 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 28 June 2013
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 95.36 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4096 vs 1536
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops vs 2,289 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 225 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K240Q

10x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 Nano
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID K240Q

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GRID K240Q
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4607
PassMark - G3D Mark		2541
PassMark - G2D Mark		212
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6935
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3938
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3667

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GRID K240Q
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Kepler
Code name	Fiji	GK104
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	28 June 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$649	$469
Place in performance rating	491	489
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops	2,289 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	4096	1536
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	95.36 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	3,540 million
Core clock speed		745 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
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR5
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