Wednesday, June 17th 2015
AMD Radeon R9 Nano to Feature a Single PCIe Power Connector
AMD's Radeon R9 Nano is shaping up to be a more important card for AMD, than even its flaghsip, the R9 Fury X. Some of the first pictures of the Fury X led us to believe that it could stay compact only because it's liquid cooled. AMD disproved that notion, unveiling the Radeon R9 Nano, an extremely compact air-cooled graphics cards, with some stunning chops.
The Radeon R9 Nano is a feat similar to the NUC by Intel - to engineer a product that's surprisingly powerful for its size. The card is 6-inches long, 2-slot thick, and doesn't lug along any external radiator. AMD CEO Lisa Su, speaking at the company's E3 conference, stated that the R9 Nano will be faster than the Radeon R9 290X. That shouldn't surprise us, since it's a bigger chip; but it's the electrical specs, that make this product exciting - a single 8-pin PCIe power input, with a typical board power rated at 175W (Radeon R9 290X was rated at 275W). The card itself is as compact as some of the "ITX-friendly" custom design boards launched in recent times. It uses a vapor-chamber based air-cooling solution, with a single fan. The Radeon R9 Nano will launch later this Summer. It could compete with the GeForce GTX 970 in both performance and price.
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The Radeon R9 Nano is a feat similar to the NUC by Intel - to engineer a product that's surprisingly powerful for its size. The card is 6-inches long, 2-slot thick, and doesn't lug along any external radiator. AMD CEO Lisa Su, speaking at the company's E3 conference, stated that the R9 Nano will be faster than the Radeon R9 290X. That shouldn't surprise us, since it's a bigger chip; but it's the electrical specs, that make this product exciting - a single 8-pin PCIe power input, with a typical board power rated at 175W (Radeon R9 290X was rated at 275W). The card itself is as compact as some of the "ITX-friendly" custom design boards launched in recent times. It uses a vapor-chamber based air-cooling solution, with a single fan. The Radeon R9 Nano will launch later this Summer. It could compete with the GeForce GTX 970 in both performance and price.
88 Comments on AMD Radeon R9 Nano to Feature a Single PCIe Power Connector
I think we need to not get into much speculation as what perf/watt, other than how AMD exposes it on that slide. I can see folks already starting to work this up into a lather… "these people said"… "they say"… and that’s when it all goes into full "AMD over-promised".
I will say it’s interesting that AMD shows on that first slide only two HBM as green? Could they be indicating that the Nano is positioned to say "up to 1440p", and they determine 2Gb of HBM more than sufficient for mainstream gaming especially into the future. I don’t see it as an improving efficiency thing, perhaps they get a lot of bad HBM/interposer surface mounts. IDK
But when you got lemons, you make lemonade…
Let's hope this card doesn't cost more than $330
Fiji down clocked can be found in Fury btw.
If all this is true, it only needs to be well priced to count with my support.
His statement was accurate, not arrogant. We are all getting excited over AMD finally doing something that nVidia did 9 months ago. And AMD has the advantage of HBM saving them an insane amount of PCB space.
Supposedly, this card will make direct competition with 970, but is that on the performance side, on the performance over watts, both?
Reviews will tell.
Lead with this next time.
Sincerely,
The Consumers
EDIT
Just checked: www.twitch.tv/amd/v/6240136?t=1h15m48s
She starts talking about the nano @ this time and indeed she says that.
Well see in them reviews.
There is no way in hell, Fiji's (inc the ancillary tech - interposer design, HBM R&D etc) R&D costs equate to an eighth of what GM204 cost to develop. Even a simple glance at the R&D spend for each company (AMD and Nvidia) should tell you that is basically impossible.
If AMD can develop a 596mm² GPU utilizing a swath of new GPU tech for 1/8th the R&D budget of a 398mm² GPU based on refinement of previous design, it makes you wonder why they didn't apply the same fervour to some much smaller chips.Well played!Probably someone in marketing noticed they didn't have enough bullet points on the slide then got the idea to divide transistor count per mm by some hand-tailored game image quality level and viola "Performance Density"!!
If AMD lead this particular metric, it should become the new "must have" feature very soon. Hallelujah! I was getting sick of DX12 feature level support being the defining factor for buying anything graphics related.
Oh wait, the 290 had 4GB not 3.5GB.
I forgot it's okay to lie to the consumers if your company's name is Nvidia. Silly me.