I like how most of the people compares a product to another league of products and then dismisses it of the edge. I can say the same for Titan series. Titans got bashed for similar things but the funny part is defenders and offenders swapped roles this time. Its like all the fanboys counter argumenting themselves on the next morning. (unfortunetally proffessional fanboys revealing themselves aswell)
Yeah, I'll be the first to say that after the launch of the 980Ti, the Titan doesn't make any sense unless you want to build an uber system backed up with water cooling, and money is not an issue, at least with Titan you know you were getting the fastest single GPU card available at the time of release, even today, there's no faster single GPU card than Titan X, as simple as that. The Nano gives you less performance for the equal amount of money people pay for Fury-X, and with lower quality components to boot as shown by the vast amount of reviewers complaining about coil noise.
This card is targeted to a niche audience, and it seems AMD skimped on testing, and even reduced that target audience furthermore by not even including HDMI 2.0, which would have made this card perfect for ultra small factor HTPC builds, very few 4K TVs have DP, but most 4K TVs sold after 2014 include at least HDMI 2.0 (I know my Sony Bravia does, and most Samsung models do as well), so by saving a few cents by not investing on a higher spec HDMI port or even getting some decent inductors that don't squeal like the ones in this card, I see even less of a reason for AMD to charge $649 for it, then again, I'm not the target audience for it, this is basically a halo product, albeit one that makes very little sense when you can get Fury-X for the same amount of money, and even most small form factor cases can accommodate at least one 120mm rad.
Too bad, I was really looking forward to replacing my 290Xs, but this round was a complete miss for AMD.
Yeah I was kinda thinking that but at the same time they still deserved a sample to review, I mean TPU is the creator of GPU-Z for christ sake!
Exactly, W1zzard started with Atitool many years ago, I remember visiting the OCFAQ forums (the vestigial predecessor to TPU) and how passionate W1zzard was at supporting all Ati cards more than a decade ago, so much for any semblance of gratitude from AMD
. It was an (IMO) comment mkay.
