Thursday, August 27th 2015

AMD Announces the Radeon R9 Nano Graphics Card

AMD continues to push the boundaries of graphics card design, today announcing its category-creating AMD Radeon R9 Nano, the fastest Mini ITX graphics card ever to enable 4K gaming in the living room through ultra-quiet, ultra-compact PC designs. First previewed to gamers around the world during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles in June 2015, the AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card is based on the graphics chip codenamed "Fiji," and is the third "Fiji"-based product to launch this summer alongside the AMD Radeon R9 Fury and R9 Fury X graphics cards. The AMD Radeon R9 Fury graphics family, based on the "Fiji" chip, marks a turning point in PC gaming with the implementation of High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) to deliver extreme energy efficiency and performance for ultra-high resolutions, unparalleled VR experiences, smoother gameplay, with the Radeon R9 Nano revolutionizing form-factors for enthusiasts everywhere.

With 30 percent more performance and 30 percent lower power than the previous generation AMD Radeon R9 290X card, the 175W AMD Radeon R9 Nano is the world's most power efficient Mini ITX enthusiast graphics card. The six-inch long, air-cooled board represents a new class of graphics card, enabling gamers, PC modders, and system integrators to build compact, unique, ultra-small form factors that have never before been possible, opening the door to new, sleek PC designs that are no bigger than a home DVR or videogame console, and look every bit in place beside them.
"With the Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, AMD is enabling 4K class gaming in your living room in an exceptionally quiet, ultra-small design built to excel in today's games and on the latest APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulkan. There simply is nothing else like it," said Matt Skynner, corporate VP and general manager, Product, Computing and Graphics Business Unit at AMD. "Our Radeon graphics line-up is ushering in a new era of PC gaming delivering remarkable performance, unmatched GPU designs and groundbreaking technologies. Today is a revolutionary moment for PC gaming, and we are proud to add this distinct product to our well-rounded AMD Radeon R9 graphics lineup."

The AMD Radeon R9 line of graphics cards offers a spectrum of products ranging in price from $199 - $649 SEP. The Radeon R9 Nano is priced at $649 (MSRP). Delivering stunningly powerful graphics for unparalleled 4K gaming experiences in their class, the AMD Radeon R9 Series meets virtually every need and budget for anyone who demands a premium gaming experience.
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81 Comments on AMD Announces the Radeon R9 Nano Graphics Card

#76
EarthDog
WshlistSo correcting for the nano having a air cooler instead of a liquid cooler, we come to it being the same or slightly higher price than the regular big fury.

Hrmpf.
*We already know the price ($650).
"Big Fury" has a name, its called Fury X.

:)
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#77
Wshlist
EarthDog*We already know the price ($650).
"Big Fury" has a name, its called Fury X.

:)
That was my point, the price is just slightly under the 'big' fury (I called it that since the card is physically much larger, and the opposite of 'nano') and the price difference is about the price of the difference between the cooling solutions, or in other words it's the same price, one just is larger and has the more expensive liquid cooling. Bit odd that, since you'd expect a cheaper version rather than just a different version.
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#78
arbiter
Not sure if techpowerup got one or not, but Pcper has a review sample. Techreport and HardOCP got denied samples.
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#79
EarthDog
I surprised H and Techreport got denied. If they did, then we likely did... I have been reaching out to my two contacts with no response and its a week away...
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#80
arbiter
EarthDogI surprised H and Techreport got denied. If they did, then we likely did... I have been reaching out to my two contacts with no response and its a week away...
youtube.com/watch?t=1921&v=O0sLUWlvU18
When they start to talk about how AMD does performance tests to make their claims not really hard to get why techreport got denied but then again they only spoke the truth. The video starts when at start of their talk about the nano. Skip to 36m20sec mark is when they start talking about "AMD benchmark guide". TR even went so far as to say they "biased" the test in their favor and from looks of the settings, that was what they did.
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#81
rtwjunkie
PC Gaming Enthusiast
EarthDogMSAA will do that, but, it can be done without pretty easily.

I have never played Witcher, so I don't know what happens when your vram is stuffed... but it can get stuffed.
Just to note, The witcher 3 is actually the model more game developers need t follow, because it is actually very light on the VRAM.
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