R9 Fury Nano revealed

http://www.maximumpc.com/amd-r9-nano-revealed/





Identical price to Fury X - $650

Identical specs to Fury X - only difference is core clock. Listed as "up to" 1000 MHz for Fury Nano instead of Fury X's 1050 MHz. AMD says Fury Nano will run 100-200 MHz lower than Fury X when gaming.

Most impressively, power consumption of Fury Nano has been reduced by 100W or about 35%, 275W down to 175W. Off the top of my head, given that AMD is claiming Nano performance as being within 5% of Fury X, this would give it higher perf/watt than GM204 and GM200.

Smaller form factor and air cooled as well.

 

Interesting comparison they have going. It may be 30% faster than mini GTX970, but it's also 50% more expensive (give or take).
That power consumption does look good though. And of course it's nice to see true mITX form factor being pushed forward.

 

Man, I should have bought that instead of my 980 Ti.

Not sure why people are griping about the price since it competes with 980 Ti and costs about the same.

 

I don't think so. We don't know anything about Fury Nano perf and thermals yet, and it dumps all its heat into the case. At least 980 Ti is a blower card. It's Nvidia's fault for not upgrading their stock cooler for GM200, it's clearly getting long in the tooth now.

 

It's supposed to be same performance as R9 Fury, but in a tighter package. And R9 Fury is between 980 and 980 Ti performance, correct? But blowing heat into the case is not a good idea, but seems you should be able to put a shroud to redirect that heat out the side. It's supposed to be 175W card and as short as it is, is perfect for an mITX build. In any case more I think about it, I'm planning on bumping up to a mid tower case eventually anyhow.

 

Wouldn't your new shiny monitor be useless then? At least the G-Sync part.

 

I'll can give it a good home

 

Let's be honest... The R9 is hardly going to be overclockable however the 980ti probably doesn't have such problems... Also yes, if you don't need the GSync monitor anymore, I'll be happy to give it an excellent home

 

New case and new CPU cooler sounds like the best route to take. I believe this is what I recommended a while back when you considered scrapping your mITX entirely and building from scratch? And as others have mentioned, you lose your ROG Swift's G-Sync capability if you switch to Radeon.

 

Right. I mean I would have gone with a Freesync LCD then. It's water under the bridge and my next purchase will be a new case and cooler. That's not too expensive, really. Good to see AMD supporting SFF though.

 

Reviews out:

http://anandtech.com/show/9621/the-amd-radeon-r9-nano-review

http://www.maximumpc.com/amd-r9-nano-review/

http://www.techspot.com/review/1061-amd-radeon-r9-nano/

 

I think it's a pretty impressive piece of kit... For those that can find a good use for it. Hopefully HDMI 2.0 adapter kits aren't stupidly priced.

 

The lack of HDMI 2.0 and hardware HEVC encode/decode kills it for HTPC. AMD screwed the pooch on this one.

 

They really did. Goddamn seems like they can't get anything right as of late, and Roy just cannot keep his mouth shut.

 

Yeah, every review I read mentioned it needed that HDMI 2.0 like really bad.

 

Am I the only one thinking its almost small enough to put into a laptop? :O

 

Nope, hopefully HBM2 will come to laptops. That would be awesome.

I was pretty pleased by the performance in reviews. Really not that far off the Fury at all, or even the Fury X for that matter. Fairly quiet too. If I wanted to spend $650 on a GPU, I may well go for the Nano over the Fury X even in a larger build with 100W+ power savings for little performance cost. Quieter at idle and less volume (and thus better airflow) are also nice pluses.

As it is I'm not looking for a $650 GPU, so HBM will have to hit more moderate price points for me to bite... but the R9 Nano is an interesting card.

No HDMI 2.0 is unfortunate. Wouldn't matter to me since I'd just go DisplayPort anyway, but I can see where it would be inconvenient for those who were using a 4K TV as a monitor.

That said, I'm still impressed with the card. Seems like it would be a great fit for an ultimate Steam Box. Put one of these in an ITX build, and you could play essentially any Steam game at near-max specs on a regular HD TV, and reasonably at 4K. Wouldn't be unreasonably large or loud for a living room setup, either.