• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano Faster than GeForce GTX 980, Pricing Revealed

Joined
Apr 29, 2014
Messages
4,180 (1.15/day)
Location
Texas
System Name SnowFire / The Reinforcer
Processor i7 10700K 5.1ghz (24/7) / 2x Xeon E52650v2
Motherboard Asus Strix Z490 / Dell Dual Socket (R720)
Cooling RX 360mm + 140mm Custom Loop / Dell Stock
Memory Corsair RGB 16gb DDR4 3000 CL 16 / DDR3 128gb 16 x 8gb
Video Card(s) GTX Titan XP (2025mhz) / Asus GTX 950 (No Power Connector)
Storage Samsung 970 1tb NVME and 2tb HDD x4 RAID 5 / 300gb x8 RAID 5
Display(s) Acer XG270HU, Samsung G7 Odyssey (1440p 240hz)
Case Thermaltake Cube / Dell Poweredge R720 Rack Mount Case
Audio Device(s) Realtec ALC1150 (On board)
Power Supply Rosewill Lightning 1300Watt / Dell Stock 750 / Brick
Mouse Logitech G5
Keyboard Logitech G19S
Software Windows 11 Pro / Windows Server 2016
Well we all saw this coming in the last few days because its a full fledged Fiji core. Really since this card has some limitations it should be priced around the $550 mark and the Fury regular should be $500. They are trying to market it as a full Fiji air cooled card which is cool especially if we see some custom variants that cram a bit more in that form factor, however on the stock one with only 4+1+1 power phase (Versus 6+1+1 on Fury X) this is a weird price point to sell it at.
 
Joined
Apr 15, 2013
Messages
1,261 (0.32/day)
System Name Some computer stuff
Processor Mostly Intel or AMD
Motherboard ATX or mATX
Cooling Bong Cooler
Memory DDR2-4
Video Card(s) A few
Storage Plenty Platters or SSDs or USBs
Display(s) Samsung 23"
Case 5 on the floor
Audio Device(s) There's one for my M7 Gene, Oh I have 3-4 PCI 5.1 ones.Sabrent! lol
Power Supply 750-1000W
Mouse cheap
Keyboard Used ps2 from garage sales
Software Yeah
Benchmark Scores http://hwbot.org/user/schmuckley/#Hardware_Library http://valid.canardpc.com/rbjpbg
Butthurt everywhere from all the 970 fanboys here?
You know it's known across all the forums about that. :laugh:
 
Joined
Aug 10, 2015
Messages
235 (0.07/day)
Location
Sol system, ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
System Name The Yellow Box
Processor AMD K5 100
Motherboard Intel 5DVX0130
Cooling A snazzy stock cooler
Memory 64MB EDO SIMM
Video Card(s) ATI Mach 64 4MB + Creative Voodoo 8MB
Storage IBM 1.6GB IDE + IBM 3.2GB IDE
Display(s) 15" AOC CRT (Terrible, terrible POS)
Case Cheapo Yellow Box
Audio Device(s) Creative Sound Blaster
Power Supply No name 200W
Mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse
Keyboard Cherry G80
Software Windows 98Se
I love how argument "this is the smallest GPU" counterbalance beloved AMD fans argument "cheaper is better". lol

You can get one year old 970 Mini for $299.99 set game settings to low/medium and get 60 fps. :laugh:


You know something smells fishy when they are marketing the card as 4K able, but then comparing it against 1080/1440p cards. Not that the ANY card, currently on the market, is truly able to drive 4K with a decent amount of AA/AF.

And at the price, they want for it, it really should be compared to the rest of the big $$$ boys.
 
Joined
Apr 16, 2010
Messages
2,067 (0.41/day)
System Name The Stone that the Builders Refused / iJayo
Processor R5 1600/ R7 3700X
Motherboard Asrock AB350 Pro4 / Asus Rog Strix B450-F gaming
Cooling Cryorig M9 / Noctua NH-D14
Memory G skill 16 Gigs ddr4 / 16 gigs PNY ddr4
Video Card(s) Nvdia GTX 660 / Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
Storage 120gig 840 evo, 120gig adata sp900 / 1tb Mushkin M.2 ssd 1 & 3 tb seagate hdd, 120 gig Hyper X ssd
Display(s) 42" Nec retail display monitor/ 34" Dell curved 165hz monitor
Case Pink Enermax Ostrog / Phanteks Enthoo Evolv Tempered Glass edition
Audio Device(s) Altec Lansing Expressionist Bass/ M-Audio monitors
Power Supply Corsair450 / Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 650
Mouse corsair vengence M65 / Zalman Knossos
Keyboard corsair k95 / Roccat Vulcan 121
Software Window 10 pro / Windows 10 pro
Benchmark Scores meh... feel me on the battle field!
Butthurt everywhere from all the 970 fanboys here?
You know it's known across all the forums about that. :laugh:


......don't get why a 970 owner would care.........nano is in a higher tier at a much higher price........
 

Fx

Joined
Oct 31, 2008
Messages
1,332 (0.24/day)
Location
Portland, OR
Processor Ryzen 2600x
Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix X470-F Gaming
Cooling Noctua
Memory G.SKILL Flare X Series 16GB DDR4 3466
Video Card(s) EVGA 980ti FTW
Storage (OS)Samsung 950 Pro (512GB), (Data) WD Reds
Display(s) 24" Dell UltraSharp U2412M
Case Fractal Design Define R5
Audio Device(s) Sennheiser GAME ONE
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA 650 P2
Mouse Mionix Castor
Keyboard Deck Hassium Pro
Software Windows 10 Pro x64
You guys are full of doom but Fury and FuryX are selling like hotcakes, they cant keep up with demand.

Even at $650 for nano AMD will struggle with demand for the first few months. There is no business reason to sell them cheaper, when they cant keep up with demand at $650. It would actually be a very dumb and bad business decision to sell them cheaper at this point.

Some of you guys also seem to be forgetting , this is the fastest card of all time in this form factor, and the best performance to watt card of all time. It also has new technology. IF Nvidia made a card with these kind of specs it would be $1,000

After the 980Ti, AMD have the next 3 fastest cards, and theres not much between 980Ti and FuryX anyway, AMD's pricing is pretty standard for this performance. Pricing doesnt seem to be an issue when Nvidia release cards, but when AMD does it, its a problem for some reason, and AMD arent even as bad as Nvidia with their $1,000 and $1,200 cards. weird

The points you brought up are many that I also noticed. Thanks for bringing some logic to the thread. Many people do not critically think and just repeat others' sentiments.

The reason they can't keep up with demand is that there were a grand total of 30,000 Fiji cards available at launch.

You misunderstand supply, demand and value, thus your point is invalid. The reason why is because shit will be shit. If a product is shit, then people won't buy it whether you offer a limited supply of 1,000 or an availability of 1,000,000. Obviously, people find value in this product at this price point for whatever reasons, e.g. form factor, coolness factor, reasonable performance, simply supporting AMD or all of the above.
 
Last edited:
Joined
Feb 18, 2006
Messages
5,147 (0.78/day)
Location
AZ
System Name Thought I'd be done with this by now
Processor i7 11700k 8/16
Motherboard MSI Z590 Pro Wifi
Cooling Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4, 9x aigo AR12
Memory 32GB GSkill TridentZ Neo DDR4-4000 CL18-22-22-42
Video Card(s) MSI Ventus 2x Geforce RTX 3070
Storage 1TB MX300 M.2 OS + Games, + cloud mostly
Display(s) Samsung 40" 4k (TV)
Case Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic EVO Black
Audio Device(s) onboard HD -> Yamaha 5.1
Power Supply EVGA 850 GQ
Mouse Logitech wireless
Keyboard same
VR HMD nah
Software Windows 10
Benchmark Scores no one cares anymore lols
How to woo buyers, AMD edition

1. Overhype a card, then say its delayed
2. After a while paper launch it and don't allow reviews
3. Price it 150-200$ more than its targeted performance counterpart

The perfect recipe for success.
 
Joined
Jul 20, 2008
Messages
4,016 (0.70/day)
Location
Ohio
System Name Desktop|| Virtual Host 0
Processor Intel Core i5 2500-K @ 4.3ghz || 2x Xeon L5630 (total 8 cores, 16 threads)
Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V || Dell PowerEdge R710 (Intel 5520 chipset)
Cooling Corsair Hydro H100 || Stock hotplug fans and passive heatsinks
Memory 4x4gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 || 12x4gb Hynix DDR3 1066 FB-DIMMs
Video Card(s) MSI GTX 760 Gaming Twin Frozr 4GB OC || Don't know, don't care
Storage Hitachi 7K3000 2TB || 6x300gb 15k rpm SAS internal hotswap, 12x3tb Seagate NAS drives in enclosure
Display(s) ViewSonic VA2349S || remote iDRAC KVM console
Case Antec P280 || Dell PowerEdge R710
Audio Device(s) HRT MusicStreamer II+ and Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 || Don't know, don't care
Power Supply SeaSonic X650 Gold || 2x870w hot-swappable
Mouse Logitech G500 || remote iDRAC KVM console
Keyboard Logitech G510 || remote iDRAC KVM console
Software Win7 Ultimate x64 || VMware vSphere 6.0 with vCenter Server 6.0
Benchmark Scores Over 9000 on the scouter
This form factor is pretty pointless anyways IMO. The primary use-case for SFF gaming rigs is in the living room, where you are probably going to place it in some sort of shelf on your TV stand. The primary space-constraint in that situation is height, so often people end up either having to use half-height cases or buy a new stand (and the ones with more distance between each shelf are harder to find and more expensive from my experience). So, from that perspective, this whole trend of Mini-ITX cubes that have small footprint for width/depth, but are still full-height, doesn't make much sense. There is a reason that a lot of HTPC cases have traditionally been longer and half-height. I really wish that somebody would put some time/effort into making a powerful half-height card; doesn't matter if it's long and takes up two slots.
 

Fx

Joined
Oct 31, 2008
Messages
1,332 (0.24/day)
Location
Portland, OR
Processor Ryzen 2600x
Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix X470-F Gaming
Cooling Noctua
Memory G.SKILL Flare X Series 16GB DDR4 3466
Video Card(s) EVGA 980ti FTW
Storage (OS)Samsung 950 Pro (512GB), (Data) WD Reds
Display(s) 24" Dell UltraSharp U2412M
Case Fractal Design Define R5
Audio Device(s) Sennheiser GAME ONE
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA 650 P2
Mouse Mionix Castor
Keyboard Deck Hassium Pro
Software Windows 10 Pro x64
This form factor is pretty pointless anyways IMO. The primary use-case for SFF gaming rigs is in the living room, where you are probably going to place it in some sort of shelf on your TV stand. The primary space-constraint in that situation is height, so often people end up either having to use half-height cases or buy a new stand (and the ones with more distance between each shelf are harder to find and more expensive from my experience). So, from that perspective, this whole trend of Mini-ITX cubes that have small footprint for width/depth, but are still full-height, doesn't make much sense. There is a reason that a lot of HTPC cases have traditionally been longer and half-height. I really wish that somebody would put some time/effort into making a powerful half-height card; doesn't matter if it's long and takes up two slots.

No. There is actually a current trend that is favoring enthusiast-level performance in smaller form factors for gaming and other demanding applications for their gaming rigs/workstations. Many people simply no longer want full ATX motherboards and large towers. This trend has traction at both home and business environments.

Also, for the living room, the SFF has been replaced by the UCFF due to the low power envelope and performance prowess of today's processors providing both CPU and GPU on one die package.
 
Last edited:
Joined
Apr 19, 2011
Messages
2,198 (0.46/day)
Location
So. Cal.
30% faster than the GTX 970, according to the company
According to that slide it is 30% in those game than the 970 Mini in 4K... I can see that

If what we're hearing is true, then not only will the R9 Nano have the same core-config as the R9 Fury X, but also its price - US $649.99.
Ok, if not substantiated, probably best to not go off the deep-end on this.

Everyone EXPECTS cheaper prices.
True however a business can present boutique products, as long as production and cost while not exactly "traditional", as long a you can sell all you produce, while holding a semblance of profit, it's good. What you don't want is to over produce. At this point Fiji/HBM production is probably not anywhere perfected, although as long as the scrap rate is not "so" burdened to the bottom-line it become a heartache to sales, AMD should have no issue maintaining. AMD is incurring valuable lessons and insight on mass producing interposer and HBM that surely offers long term dividends.

I seems forums are being driving by unsubstantiated stuff, it's best to wait for the release, rather than throwing daggers around.
 
Last edited:
Joined
Jul 20, 2008
Messages
4,016 (0.70/day)
Location
Ohio
System Name Desktop|| Virtual Host 0
Processor Intel Core i5 2500-K @ 4.3ghz || 2x Xeon L5630 (total 8 cores, 16 threads)
Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V || Dell PowerEdge R710 (Intel 5520 chipset)
Cooling Corsair Hydro H100 || Stock hotplug fans and passive heatsinks
Memory 4x4gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 || 12x4gb Hynix DDR3 1066 FB-DIMMs
Video Card(s) MSI GTX 760 Gaming Twin Frozr 4GB OC || Don't know, don't care
Storage Hitachi 7K3000 2TB || 6x300gb 15k rpm SAS internal hotswap, 12x3tb Seagate NAS drives in enclosure
Display(s) ViewSonic VA2349S || remote iDRAC KVM console
Case Antec P280 || Dell PowerEdge R710
Audio Device(s) HRT MusicStreamer II+ and Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 || Don't know, don't care
Power Supply SeaSonic X650 Gold || 2x870w hot-swappable
Mouse Logitech G500 || remote iDRAC KVM console
Keyboard Logitech G510 || remote iDRAC KVM console
Software Win7 Ultimate x64 || VMware vSphere 6.0 with vCenter Server 6.0
Benchmark Scores Over 9000 on the scouter
No. There is actually a current trend that is favoring enthusiast-level performance in smaller form factors for gaming and other demanding applications for their gaming rigs/workstations. Many people simply no longer want full ATX motherboards and large towers. This trend has traction at both home and business environments.
In the business environments, from what I've seen, they typically don't care about graphics performance and will instead opt for UCFF. For home environments, whether or not there are people who want a smaller box at their desk just because, it really doesn't serve as much utilitarian purpose. It's great to have the option I guess, but I don't view it as a being necessitated by any common space-constraints like the small shelves of a TV stand.
Also, for the living room, the SFF has been replaced by the UCFF due to the low power envelope and performance prowess of today's processors providing both CPU and GPU on one die package.
While true for strict HTPCs that are just for media, I was thinking more of people who want a powerful gaming machine in their living-room to use with Steam's Big Picture mode or Steam OS. If you can't fit the box on the shelf of your TV stand, then it doesn't matter whether it is a box or a tower, because either way it will have to sit on the floor next to the TV stand. Or, at best, if your TV is wall-mounted and you don't have a center-channel speaker then you can sit it on top of the stand . . . or just fork out the cash for a better stand, but then you might not be able to afford the graphics card.
 
Joined
Nov 25, 2012
Messages
246 (0.06/day)
Have AMD gone back to PR ratings or what they think there processor / GPU's are like compared to a Pentium.

I would like to see AMD release something that I would like to buy pity there processors are over priced and there graphics cards and linux support don't go hand in hand.

They need to ban the weed at there office and maybe make something people want to buy at a decent price point.

AMD needs to re-brand even more with PR ratings!!!

Just to get the few people who are on side off side !
 
Last edited:
Joined
Mar 23, 2012
Messages
777 (0.18/day)
Location
Norway
System Name Games/internet/usage
Processor I7 5820k 4.2 Ghz
Motherboard ASUS X99-A2
Cooling custom water loop for cpu and gpu
Memory 16GiB Crucial Ballistix Sport 2666 MHz
Video Card(s) Radeon Rx 6800 XT
Storage Samsung XP941 500 GB + 1 TB SSD
Display(s) Dell 3008WFP
Case Caselabs Magnum M8
Audio Device(s) Shiit Modi 2 Uber -> Matrix m-stage -> HD650
Power Supply beQuiet dark power pro 1200W
Mouse Logitech MX518
Keyboard Corsair K95 RGB
Software Win 10 Pro
This form factor is pretty pointless anyways IMO. The primary use-case for SFF gaming rigs is in the living room, where you are probably going to place it in some sort of shelf on your TV stand. The primary space-constraint in that situation is height, so often people end up either having to use half-height cases or buy a new stand (and the ones with more distance between each shelf are harder to find and more expensive from my experience). So, from that perspective, this whole trend of Mini-ITX cubes that have small footprint for width/depth, but are still full-height, doesn't make much sense. There is a reason that a lot of HTPC cases have traditionally been longer and half-height. I really wish that somebody would put some time/effort into making a powerful half-height card; doesn't matter if it's long and takes up two slots.
You are aware that there exist chassis that uses a flexible PCI-e extender to lay the GFX card flat like the motherboard? see the Node 202 as a example. Put a i7 6700 and a Fury nano in that with a 500 GB SSD and you have a quite slim (88 mm high chasis) and potent setup that is going to play everything on a normal 1080p TV maxed out, a smal 970 would also work.
 
Joined
Jul 20, 2008
Messages
4,016 (0.70/day)
Location
Ohio
System Name Desktop|| Virtual Host 0
Processor Intel Core i5 2500-K @ 4.3ghz || 2x Xeon L5630 (total 8 cores, 16 threads)
Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V || Dell PowerEdge R710 (Intel 5520 chipset)
Cooling Corsair Hydro H100 || Stock hotplug fans and passive heatsinks
Memory 4x4gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 || 12x4gb Hynix DDR3 1066 FB-DIMMs
Video Card(s) MSI GTX 760 Gaming Twin Frozr 4GB OC || Don't know, don't care
Storage Hitachi 7K3000 2TB || 6x300gb 15k rpm SAS internal hotswap, 12x3tb Seagate NAS drives in enclosure
Display(s) ViewSonic VA2349S || remote iDRAC KVM console
Case Antec P280 || Dell PowerEdge R710
Audio Device(s) HRT MusicStreamer II+ and Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 || Don't know, don't care
Power Supply SeaSonic X650 Gold || 2x870w hot-swappable
Mouse Logitech G500 || remote iDRAC KVM console
Keyboard Logitech G510 || remote iDRAC KVM console
Software Win7 Ultimate x64 || VMware vSphere 6.0 with vCenter Server 6.0
Benchmark Scores Over 9000 on the scouter
You are aware that there exist chassis that uses a flexible PCI-e extender to lay the GFX card flat like the motherboard? see the Node 202 as a example. Put a i7 6700 and a Fury nano in that with a 500 GB SSD and you have a quite slim (88 mm high chasis) and potent setup that is going to play everything on a normal 1080p TV maxed out, a smal 970 would also work.
This is true; I hadn't thought about that because such cases with riser cards weren't widely available back when I bought my HTPC chassis.
 
Joined
Jun 13, 2012
Messages
1,316 (0.31/day)
Processor i7-13700k
Motherboard Asus Tuf Gaming z790-plus
Cooling Coolermaster Hyper 212 RGB
Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5 7000mhz
Video Card(s) Asus Dual Geforce RTX 4070 Super ( 2800mhz @ 1.0volt, ~60mhz overlock -.1volts. 180-190watt draw)
Storage 1x Samsung 980 Pro PCIe4 NVme, 2x Samsung 1tb 850evo SSD, 3x WD drives, 2 seagate
Display(s) Acer Predator XB273u 27inch IPS G-Sync 165hz
Power Supply Corsair RMx Series RM850x (OCZ Z series PSU retired after 13 years of service)
Mouse Logitech G502 hero
Keyboard Logitech G710+
I agree completely that a $650 Fiji is much better value for money than a $1,000 Titan whatever-it's-called-this-time. I also believe that anyone who buys a Titan is a moron with too much cash. Unfortunately, as Apple has proven, you can make a very successful business selling overpriced products to cash-flush morons; all nVIDIA is doing with Titan is getting a piece of that moron pie.
Fury X was gonna start at 850$ before Nvidia dropped the 980ti on the market at 650$, So i know its hard to admit nvidia gave you fury X at 650$ but it is a fact just like gtx970 forced prices down of the 290x.

AMD is contradicting itself left and right. First they release a performance slide showing the Nano just barely beating a 290X, now they are pricing it super high and saying it performs better than a 980. I'll wait the reviews and hope the reviewers are smart enough to see through AMD's trick and let the card heat up.
Yea AMD made the mistake of releasing the settings they used for Fury x vs 980ti during that anouncement so people could see where AMD cheated a bit and turned off anything that wasn't using gpu's shaders. I bet they pulled same thing in those benchmarks.

I love how argument "this is the smallest GPU" counterbalance beloved AMD fans argument "cheaper is better". lol
You can get one year old 970 Mini for $299.99 set game settings to low/medium and get 60 fps. :laugh:

You know something smells fishy when they are marketing the card as 4K able, but then comparing it against 1080/1440p cards. Not that the ANY card, currently on the market, is truly able to drive 4K with a decent amount of AA/AF.
I can't say AA is a requirement as its best thing to have off for fps but AF is pretty much minimum inpact fps wise but sad how they have it mostly all turned off cept in 1 game cause they know it will hurt their performance vs what is pretty much stricly 1080p card.

How to woo buyers, AMD edition
1. Overhype a card, then say its delayed
2. After a while paper launch it and don't allow reviews
3. Price it 150-200$ more than its targeted performance counterpart
The perfect recipe for success.
Since its Size its counter part is gtx970 and price gap is up to 360$ difference since yesturday can get a mini 970 for 290$ on newegg.
 
Joined
Dec 8, 2014
Messages
101 (0.03/day)
With all the hype amd is trying to put on this card it reminds me of how they were with Fury X. I have a feeling we will all be disappointed. Amd the company that loves to disappoint
 
Joined
Jan 2, 2012
Messages
1,079 (0.24/day)
Location
Indonesia
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
Motherboard ASUS STRIX X570-E
Cooling NOCTUA NH-U12A
Memory G.Skill FlareX 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200
Video Card(s) ASUS RTX 4070 DUAL
Storage 1 TB WD Black SN850X | 2 TB WD Blue SN570 | 10 TB WD Purple Pro
Display(s) LG 32QP880N 32"
Case Fractal Design Define R5 Black
Power Supply Seasonic Focus Gold 750W
Mouse Pulsar X2
Keyboard KIRA EXS
With all the hype amd is trying to put on this card it reminds me of how they were with Fury X. I have a feeling we will all be disappointed. Amd the company that loves to disappoint

Well, it's in their name. AMD = Advanced Mastery of Disappointment.
 
Joined
Feb 18, 2013
Messages
2,178 (0.54/day)
Location
Deez Nutz, bozo!
System Name Rainbow Puke Machine :D
Processor Intel Core i5-11400 (MCE enabled, PL removed)
Motherboard ASUS STRIX B560-G GAMING WIFI mATX
Cooling Corsair H60i RGB PRO XT AIO + HD120 RGB (x3) + SP120 RGB PRO (x3) + Commander PRO
Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB RT 2 x 8GB 3200MHz DDR4 C16
Video Card(s) Zotac RTX2060 Twin Fan 6GB GDDR6 (Stock)
Storage Corsair MP600 PRO 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 SSD
Display(s) LG 29WK600-W Ultrawide 1080p IPS Monitor (primary display)
Case Corsair iCUE 220T RGB Airflow (White) w/Lighting Node CORE + Lighting Node PRO RGB LED Strips (x4).
Audio Device(s) ASUS ROG Supreme FX S1220A w/ Savitech SV3H712 AMP + Sonic Studio 3 suite
Power Supply Corsair RM750x 80 Plus Gold Fully Modular
Mouse Corsair M65 RGB FPS Gaming (White)
Keyboard Corsair K60 PRO RGB Mechanical w/ Cherry VIOLA Switches
VR HMD Pico 4 128GB AIO VR Headset* (* = in consideration of getting one)
Software Windows 10 Professional x64 (Update 22H2)
sad case for AMD really... if they really wanted to bring the fight to Nvidia, they should have created a fresh new chip based on what the Fury X is using, without power limits & improved power consumption minus all that marketing gimmick BS (and unrealistic paper scores) that everyone is tired of it. Too bad they're not planning for such a plan & instead are on the losing end with a drop in shares along with a few hundreds, if not thousands of disappointed loyalists leaving the red camp. I was expecting something great from them & I just lost all my hopes on them, thinking they can keep the competition fierce enough for Nvidia. Now that Nvidia has their affordable GTX950, touted as "best affordable 1080p gaming card for under $180", AMD's R7 range isn't gonna cut, despite a slew of price cuts AMD is famous for.
 

64K

Joined
Mar 13, 2014
Messages
6,104 (1.66/day)
Processor i7 7700k
Motherboard MSI Z270 SLI Plus
Cooling CM Hyper 212 EVO
Memory 2 x 8 GB Corsair Vengeance
Video Card(s) MSI RTX 2070 Super
Storage Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB and WD Black 4TB
Display(s) Dell 27 inch 1440p 144 Hz
Case Corsair Obsidian 750D Airflow Edition
Audio Device(s) Onboard
Power Supply EVGA SuperNova 850 W Gold
Mouse Logitech G502
Keyboard Logitech G105
Software Windows 10
The best way to not be disappointed when the Nano does launch and reviews show up is to not over expect. In the review here for the Fury X full Fiji the card drew an average of 246 watts and a peak of 280 watts. The blurb about "up to 1000 MHz" for the full Fiji Nano could mean anything. It might be able to ramp up to 1000 MHz for a few seconds but that doesn't tell you what your average gaming performance will be. I'm expecting it will be able to sustain 850-900 MHz but I could be wrong. This is what happens when you announce a card and specs when it won't launch until 2 weeks later. People naturally want to talk about new hardware, myself included, but who knows until it's thoroughly tested which it will get here when AMD sends TPU a card.

As far as the price. That's a disappointment already. AMD certainly could have knocked the price of the Fury X water cooler off of the Nano at least.
 
Joined
Mar 10, 2015
Messages
3,984 (1.21/day)
System Name Wut?
Processor 3900X
Motherboard ASRock Taichi X570
Cooling Water
Memory 32GB GSkill CL16 3600mhz
Video Card(s) Vega 56
Storage 2 x AData XPG 8200 Pro 1TB
Display(s) 3440 x 1440
Case Thermaltake Tower 900
Power Supply Seasonic Prime Ultra Platinum
"best affordable 1080p gaming card for under $180"

Nothing under a 970 or 290 should be considered best for 1080. Anything under that and your are going to have to start neutering settings.

AMD certainly could have knocked the price of the Fury X water cooler off of the Nano at least.

My guess is that these are the absolutely best binned Fury parts. There seems to be no other way to have any hopes at maintaining decent clocks with that type of power envelope. So instead of paying for the AIO, you are paying for the size, well lack of rather. I am still very intrigued to see how this performs in this package.
 
Joined
Jun 25, 2010
Messages
854 (0.17/day)
You know how when you overclock most anything, you get an increase in Mhz with stock V and then you slowly push the V to get more Mhz. There's a point where the V increase is too much for the small increase of Mhz you get and heat and power consumption sky rockets. If the Fury X had to be pushed to inefficient voltage to get a good clock to compete with NVidia then the Nano may not be a pipe dream and might have stable clocks with the 175W TDP.
 
Joined
Dec 31, 2009
Messages
19,366 (3.72/day)
Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
If the Fury X had to be pushed to inefficient voltage to get a good clock to compete with NVidia then the Nano may not be a pipe dream and might have stable clocks with the 175W TDP.
Yay! More thinking!!

In the briefing we were told that to reach Fury X speeds, for that 10% more performance, there is a 50% increase in power use.

That said, they also mentioned that 'light loads' it would reach 1K, but with heavy loads you are looking around 950MHz... again assuming temps are in order. You can also raise the power limit too I would imagine...
 
Joined
Jun 13, 2012
Messages
1,316 (0.31/day)
Processor i7-13700k
Motherboard Asus Tuf Gaming z790-plus
Cooling Coolermaster Hyper 212 RGB
Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5 7000mhz
Video Card(s) Asus Dual Geforce RTX 4070 Super ( 2800mhz @ 1.0volt, ~60mhz overlock -.1volts. 180-190watt draw)
Storage 1x Samsung 980 Pro PCIe4 NVme, 2x Samsung 1tb 850evo SSD, 3x WD drives, 2 seagate
Display(s) Acer Predator XB273u 27inch IPS G-Sync 165hz
Power Supply Corsair RMx Series RM850x (OCZ Z series PSU retired after 13 years of service)
Mouse Logitech G502 hero
Keyboard Logitech G710+
Yay! More thinking!!

In the briefing we were told that to reach Fury X speeds, for that 10% more performance, there is a 50% increase in power use.

That said, they also mentioned that 'light loads' it would reach 1K, but with heavy loads you are looking around 950MHz... again assuming temps are in order. You can also raise the power limit too I would imagine...
950 is def a pipe dream, i would expect more like 800-850 maybe even lower since they claim its only around 10% faster then a 290x.
 
Joined
Mar 10, 2015
Messages
3,984 (1.21/day)
System Name Wut?
Processor 3900X
Motherboard ASRock Taichi X570
Cooling Water
Memory 32GB GSkill CL16 3600mhz
Video Card(s) Vega 56
Storage 2 x AData XPG 8200 Pro 1TB
Display(s) 3440 x 1440
Case Thermaltake Tower 900
Power Supply Seasonic Prime Ultra Platinum
950 is def a pipe dream, i would expect more like 800-850 maybe even lower since they claim its only around 10% faster then a 290x.

First problem is that they can't make up their minds what it is faster than. I think this is one of the most interesting card releases in a while. I think we should start taking bets on which one of their stories it will be.
 
Joined
Dec 31, 2009
Messages
19,366 (3.72/day)
Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
I never heard them claim it was 10% faster than a 290x. "Significantly faster" is what they were saying. And a Fury, what they SAID this would perform like, is more than 10% faster than a 290x/390x.
 
Top