AMD Radeon R9 Nano: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 Nano sales 27 August 2015 at a recommended price of $649. This is GCN 3.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) memory clocked at 500 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 152 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 175 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 48.61 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.
General info
Technical specs
Memory specs
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
NVIDIA equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of Radeon R9 Nano's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Code name
Fiji
Type
Desktop
Design
reference
Release date
27 August 2015
Technical specs
Radeon R9 Nano's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 Nano's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Compute units
64
Transistor count
8,900 million
of 21100
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R9 Nano's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
152 mm
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
+
Memory specs
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 Nano: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
+
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
of 32
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
of 14000
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 Nano.
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
HDMI
+
DisplayPort support
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 Nano. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
AppAcceleration
+
CrossFire
+
FRTC
+
FreeSync
+
HD3D
+
LiquidVR
+
PowerTune
+
TressFX
+
TrueAudio
+
ZeroCore
+
VCE
+
DDMA audio
+
Eyefinity
+
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 Nano, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX® 12
OpenGL
4.5
of 4.6
OpenCL
2.0
Vulkan
+
Mantle
+
Video card benchmarks performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 Nano. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
48.64
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
402499
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
81374
3DMark Fire Strike Score
12081
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
14362
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
17282
3DMark Vantage Performance
43546
Unigine Heaven 4.0
1732
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
14920
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 Nano. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
30 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)
295 Sol/s
Game benchmarks (in FPS)
Let's see how good Radeon R9 Nano is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.
Overall gaming performance
0.32
Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net
Doom (2016)
high / 1080p
95
ultra / 1080p
87
4k / 2160p
38
Far Cry Primal (2016)
low / 720p
143
medium / 1080p
112
high / 1080p
98
ultra / 1080p
71
4k / 2160p
36
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (2016)
ultra / 1080p
77
4k / 2160p
32
Overwatch (2016)
high / 1080p
227
ultra / 1080p
117
4k / 2160p
76
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)
ultra / 1080p
56
4k / 2160p
30
The Division (2016)
ultra / 1080p
64
4k / 2160p
34
XCOM 2 (2016)
ultra / 1080p
35
4k / 2160p
22
Fallout 4 (2015)
ultra / 1080p
80
4k / 2160p
37
Just Cause 3 (2015)
ultra / 1080p
81
4k / 2160p
37
Rainbow Six Siege (2015)
ultra / 1080p
141
4k / 2160p
61
The Witcher 3 (2015)
ultra / 1080p
47
4k / 2160p
35
Battlefield 4 (2013)
ultra / 1080p
100
4k / 2160p
54
Crysis 3 (2013)
ultra / 1080p
64
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R9 Nano performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 Nano from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 980, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.
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Advices and comments
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