Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs R9 Nano

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking252not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.42no data
Power efficiency8.63no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameFijiPitcairn
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date27 August 2015 (9 years ago)5 May 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40961024
Compute units64no data
Core clock speedno data958 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors8,900 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate256.061.31
Floating-point processing power8.192 TFLOPS1.962 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs25664

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length152 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHigh Bandwidth Memory (HBM)GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)+no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1365 MHz
Memory bandwidth512 GB/s174.7 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
ZeroCore+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (11_1)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan+1.2
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2015 5 May 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 80 Watt

R9 Nano has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

R9 M390 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 118.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 Nano and Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 Nano is a desktop card while Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition is a notebook one.


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