Tuesday, August 4th 2015

AMD Radeon R9 Nano Coming Sooner Than You Think?

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AMD's upcoming disruptive performance-segment graphics card, the Radeon R9 Nano, could be arriving sooner than its late-Summer expected launch. One of AMD's promotional heads Anthony "Elmy" Lackey posted two pictures of the card on his Flickr page, which reiterates just how compact the thing is. AMD earlier announced that the R9 Nano will be faster than the Radeon R9 290X, with typical board power well under 190W, making it an exciting product to look forward to. The R9 Nano will be based on the same "Fiji" silicon, which powers the R9 Fury X and R9 Fury. AMD could make a major announcement related to this product very soon, given how Elmy promised to release a few details next week.
Sources: Guru3D, Many Thanks to okidna for the tip.

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105 Comments on AMD Radeon R9 Nano Coming Sooner Than You Think?

#101
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
Yeah but with Fiji, that's a lot of heat in a very compact area. The heat being spread out more is an advantage of GDDR5.
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#102
sliderider
With the compute power this card has and the low power consumption, there are going to be a lot of people switching to these in their Bitcoin mining rigs. The cost of electricity is your biggest expense so if you can cut that substantially without losing computing power, it makes it more profitable to do.
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#103
arbiter
slideriderWith the compute power this card has and the low power consumption, there are going to be a lot of people switching to these in their Bitcoin mining rigs. The cost of electricity is your biggest expense so if you can cut that substantially without losing computing power, it makes it more profitable to do.
that kinda work on card tends to draw a lot of power and make lots of heat so its down to if that cooler on the card is good enough to make it worth it.
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#104
64K
slideriderWith the compute power this card has and the low power consumption, there are going to be a lot of people switching to these in their Bitcoin mining rigs. The cost of electricity is your biggest expense so if you can cut that substantially without losing computing power, it makes it more profitable to do.
Is Bitcoin mining still a factor for AMD cards? The last I read about it said that it was no longer worth doing for the average guy. That mining craze was a mess for anyone wanting an AMD card a while back. It caused shortages in supplies and retailers gouged just because they could. I'm not sure what AMD will suggest the retail price to be for the Nano but if it matches or is slightly better than the 290x and you can pick up a 290x for $260 then they will either have to pull the 290x from the supply chain and eat the cost of doing that or sell the Nano for less than $400 at least, maybe even lower.
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#105
Caring1
GPU mining died ages ago.
ASIC farms are where the money moved to.
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