Wednesday, August 26th 2015

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

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AMD's upcoming super-compact graphics card, the Radeon R9 Nano, will be faster than NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980, and a whopping 30% faster than the GTX 970, according to the company. At its size, it will offer the fastest pixel-crunching solution for compact ITX/SFF gaming PC builders, and that is something AMD want to capitalize on. 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. At this price, the R9 Nano definitely isn't going to affect sales of the GTX 970 or GTX 980, which are currently going for as low as $299 and $465, respectively; but serve as a "halo product," targeted at SFF gaming PC builders.
Source: WCCFTech

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

#101
EarthDog
390 and 390x are 290 and 290x with a clock and vram bump... must have missed those?
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#102
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.
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#103
arbiter
EarthDogI 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.
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#104
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.
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#105
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.
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#107
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
water cool this card with aftermarket.
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#108
arbiter
eidairaman1water cool this card with aftermarket.
Questionable if that will help any since its TDP limited to 175watts. Card would still throttle reguardless.
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#109
EarthDog
arbiterQuestionable 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. ;)
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#110
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.
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#111
arbiter
RealNeilSomeone 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+.
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