Monday, August 24th 2015
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Nears Launch, 50% Higher Performance per Watt over Fury X
AMD's ultra-compact graphics card based on its "Fiji" silicon, the Radeon R9 Nano (or R9 Fury-Nano), is nearing its late-August/early-September launch. At its most recent "Hot Chips" presentation, AMD put out more interesting numbers related to the card. To begin with, it lives up to the promise of being faster than the R9 290X, at nearly half its power draw. The R9 Nano has 90% higher performance/Watt over the R9 290X. More importantly, it has about 50% higher performance/Watt over the company's current flagship single-GPU product, the Radeon R9 Fury X. With these performance figures, the R9 Nano will be targeted at compact gaming-PC builds that are capable of 1440p gaming.
Source:
Golem.de
106 Comments on AMD Radeon R9 Nano Nears Launch, 50% Higher Performance per Watt over Fury X
But.
This is not the product AMD needs right now, at all.
We dont need more product that cost 100+$ above the GTX 970 and perform just slightly better. (slideshow shows 30.5FPS for R9 290X and 33FPS for R9 NANO, so... about 390X levels.)
We need a competition that will actually drive the market and get AMD out of its bankrupcy danger.
Can't wait to see what this cutie is capable of. :p
I hope AMD skimped on neither the Fiji binning nor the vapor chamber, because this card is going to need both.
ek gear would look great on these.
Better performance per watt than Hawaii, sure. I will laugh when those numbers don't hold up to scrutiny. I would rather wait for HBM 2.0 so we can let all of the early adopters adopts the early problems. :)
Also I don't know where you see that part with significantly faster than 290x, they mentioned it will be faster ... not significantly faster.
Still looks like an amazing card ... unfortunately it will probably have a price in the range of the current R9 390x. I would like to see a Fiji based card in the mid range. Maybe with only 2 GB of HBM and 2000 processing units and with a price in the range of R9 285/380.
Either way lets see the price and reviews first, maybe this time it is worth to go over the mid-range budget.