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

[moproblems99]

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.

I think he may be referencing the slides the other day that showed it between the 390 and 390x. On the other had, more powerful than the 980 would be close to good enough for significantly.

 

[EarthDog]

390 and 390x are 290 and 290x with a clock and vram bump... must have missed those?

 

[64K]

The Fury X comes stock with a core clock of 1050 MHz and the sample sent to TPU could be overclocked to 1150 MHz and tested in BF3. If the Nano can be overclocked to 1150 MHz and be stable then it is worth the same price as the Fury X. Heavily binned chips helps but can it go that far without the GPU throttling back on the clocks? That is one question the reviewers will have an answer for.

If it can't be pushed that far and the power savings are important to the customer then I could understand taking a hit on performance and buying the Nano for the same $650 as the Fury X.

 

[arbiter]

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.

The Significantly faster was the claim at the fury X announcement few months ago. If Significantly faster is 10% then all intel cpu's last few generation's have been "Significantly faster". This is most recent claim for it,

the footnote is vs a 290x using intel cpu.

 

[EarthDog]

I am not sure I buy that slide is from AMD... they are clear that it is not named Fury Nano.... But R9 Nano.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

@moproblems99: for it's class & range below $180 as I am not comparing it with higher tier cards like the R9 290 or a GTX970. Reason why I said so is for those who wanted something fast while keeping their wallet away from drying out, just to play games like Dota 2, LoL, SC2 or HotS since these games are more demanding by the masses than graphic-crunching games like GTAV, for example. Remember, it's a budget-friendly card that replaces the GTX750 & it's Ti variant where it falls short due to power limits & OCing capabilities.

 

[yun4l]

its about 100k yen in JAPAN , so ...

http://www.ask-corp.jp/news/2015/09/sapphire-r9-nano-4g-hbm.html

 

[eidairaman1]

water cool this card with aftermarket.

 

[arbiter]

water cool this card with aftermarket.

Questionable if that will help any since its TDP limited to 175watts. Card would still throttle reguardless.

 

[EarthDog]

Questionable if that will help any since its TDP limited to 175watts. Card would still throttle reguardless.

It would have, like most all AMD cards, a power limit slider to raise.

 

[RealNeil]

Someone at AMD is suffering from an Anal/Cranial inversion.

This price is unrealistic at best. I think that they want to make money from these Nano cards, but supply problems keep them from selling in large quantities.
So they jack the price way up on the ones that they do have for sale. (hoping that the usual fools will buy at the inflated prices)

I will not even consider them at anywhere near these prices.

 

[arbiter]

Someone at AMD is suffering from an Anal/Cranial inversion.

This price is unrealistic at best. I think that they want to make money from these Nano cards, but supply problems keep them from selling in large quantities.
So they jack the price way up on the ones that they do have for sale. (hoping that the usual fools will buy at the inflated prices)

I will not even consider them at anywhere near these prices.

Nano is pretty much a heavily binned Fury X chip. The Best of the Best power wise chips and lowest voltage ones. Should be more of a shock they are not 700+.