AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
3.6x more texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 72 billion / sec
4x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1024
3.4x better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 2,413 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
71.4x more memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
2x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4607 vs 2283

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 22 January 2015
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 72 billion / sec
Pipelines	4096 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops vs 2,413 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4607 vs 2283

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 175 Watt

Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 Nano
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4607

2283

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4607	2283
PassMark - G3D Mark		6065
PassMark - G2D Mark		675
Geekbench - OpenCL		18323
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3335

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Fiji	GM206
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	22 January 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$649	$199
Place in performance rating	491	496
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Price now		$229.99
Value for money (0-100)		34.63
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1178 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops	2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	4096	1024
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	72 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	2,940 million
Core clock speed		1127 MHz
CUDA cores		1024
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	152 mm	9.5" (24.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pins
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		400 Watt
SLI options		2x
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_1)
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	112 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR5
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
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost