We're actually a bit surprised that AMD did not communicate a value like this to the masses. Since the new Fury cards are rather small, and actually the R9 Nano is even smaller, we thought it's interesting to compare the "performance density" of graphics cards.

Ok then, let's get started with this. As we already reported today, the AMD R9 Nano is capable of performing 26.6 fps in Unigine Heaven at UHD resolution, Extreme preset and 0xAA/0xAF. If we now consider that the R9 Nano measures 15cm in length and about 10cm in height we receive an area of 150 cm². This means that the performance density (performance per cm²) is 0.1773 fps/cm².

Let do the same calculation for an NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti reference card. Testing the card with the same way like the R9 Nano we receive 27.3 fps. The GTX 980 Ti measures 26.6cm in length and 10cm in height, which means the PCB has an area of about 266cm². Calculating the performance per cm² we receive 0.1026 fps/cm².

Comparing the two performance density results, we now see that the R9 Nano achieves a results which is almost 73 percent higher. In our opinion this is an interesting way to look at the performance of graphics cards. Apparently in the case of gaming systems calculations like this one are rather artificial, since they are more common in server environments, where the goal can be to achieve maximum performance on a given area.




Source: Own