AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid and AMD Radeon R9 Nano videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 68% higher boost clock speed: 1677 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 68% higher texture fill rate: 429.3 GTexel / s vs 256.0 GTexel / s
  • Around 68% better floating-point performance: 13,738 gflops vs 8,192 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.8x more memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 69% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 7765 vs 4607
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 August 2017 vs 27 August 2015
Boost clock speed 1677 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 429.3 GTexel / s vs 256.0 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 13,738 gflops vs 8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7765 vs 4607

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

  • Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 225 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
7765
4607
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid AMD Radeon R9 Nano
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7765 4607

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Vega 10 Fiji
Launch date 8 August 2017 27 August 2015
Place in performance rating 256 491
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP) $649

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1677 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1406 MHz
Floating-point performance 13,738 gflops 8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 4096 4096
Texture fill rate 429.3 GTexel / s 256.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 175 Watt
Compute units 64
Stream Processors 4096
Transistor count 8,900 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 152 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 483.8 GB / s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 2048 Bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type HBM2 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

API support

DirectX 12
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5
Vulkan

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore