AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +28%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

8.192 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +49%

6876

Radeon R9 Nano

4607

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +7%

30

Radeon R9 Nano

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

Radeon R9 Nano +5%

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +16%

87

Radeon R9 Nano

75

Radeon RX Vega 56

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Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Aug 2015

Vega

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

HBM

2048bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

64

3584

Shading Units

4096

224

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Fiji

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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