Comparison: radeon r9 nano vs r9 390x fury, fury x, gtx 970, gtx 980 and gtx 980ti
Table of contents:
- 1920 x 1080 pixels FullHD
- 2560 x 1440 2K pixels
- 3840 x 2160 pixels 4K
- AMD Radeon R9 Nano, concentrated power
After the launch of the new AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, we already have the first video comparisons of its performance against the most powerful cards from Nvidia and AMD. The benchmarks have been made in a total of 9 very demanding current games at resolutions 1920 x 1080, 2560 x 1440 and 3840 x 2160.
Recall that the AMD Radeon R9 Nano is equipped with a Fiji GPU with all its Compute Units activated, which translates to 4096 Stream Processors, 256 TMUs and 64 ROPs operating at a maximum frequency of 1000 MHz. Regarding memory, we find the same 4 GB HBM at 500 MHz and a 4, 096-bit interface resulting in a bandwidth of 512 GB / s. Most striking is its 175W TDP content that allows it to operate with just one 8-pin power connector.
1920 x 1080 pixels FullHD
We started with a modest Full HD resolution in which AMD does not shine especially, being the GeForce GTX 980 superior to the Radeon R9 Nano in six of the nine games in the test, even the GTX 970 is capable of surpassing it on occasion.
2560 x 1440 2K pixels
Raising the resolution to an interesting 2560 x 1440 pixels (2K) we see that Fiji and the Radeon R9 Nano begin to draw muscle being superior to the GTX 980 in seven of the nine video games, a completely different situation from the Full HD view.
3840 x 2160 pixels 4K
We finally arrived at 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K) resolution and here the GTX 980 is no longer a match for Fiji being outperformed by the Radeon R9 Nano in eight out of nine video games. The only card clearly superior to the R9 Nano in this resolution is the GeForce GTX 980Ti which has a tough rival in the Radeon R9 Fury X.
AMD Radeon R9 Nano, concentrated power
As we can see in the performance tests, the Radeon R9 Nano is a graphics card that offers extraordinary performance despite its small size. This great little card is able to sit between a Radeon R9 390X and a Radeon R9 Fury with a single 8-pin power connector and a 175W TDP, a huge improvement in efficiency considering that both the Radeon R9 390X and the Radeon R9 Fury include two power connectors and its TDP approaches 300W.
If we compare the R9 Nano and the rest of the cards based on Fiji silicon against the GeForce GTX 980 and 980Ti from Nvidia, we see how at a Full HD resolution the Nvidia cards are more efficient, being the GTX 980 superior to Fiji in numerous occasions. However, by increasing the resolution we see how the AMD architecture begins to show its muscle and is gaining ground against Nvidia, until we reach 4K and we see that only the GTX 980Ti can beat Fiji and not always.
Note: Data obtained from DigitalFoundry
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