AMD Radeon R9 Nano Review by TPU...Not

[arbiter]

Aye, when I saw that twitter thing I nearly fell off my chair (figarutively speaking of course). If TPU isn't fair, nothing else is.

HardOCP and Techreports also had their reputation and integrity attacked in this whole fiasco even though he only says "fair review" he did say same thing in email to Kyle @ hardocp. AMD pissed on a few sites and called it rain to start but then Roy Admitted to pissing on them on twitter. The Bad PR AMD tried to avoid now just dropped on them worse then all 3 sites review of the nano could ever brought on and the price tag.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

This is becoming a massive shitstorm from AMD's PR dept...

 

[arbiter]

@ryanshrout: Sure, the embargo isn't up, but you can already buy the R9 Nano on Amazon for $649. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015121DMA/?tag=tec06d-20

 

[Averist]

Indonesian reviewer already got R9 Nano.

Their Preview : http://www.jagatreview.com/2015/09/preview-amd-r9-nano/

 

[arbiter]

Not sure how they could have a review up if NDA is still in effect according to ryan

 

[Athlon2K15]

NDA has to be up by now, my inbox is exploding with reviews

 

[okidna]

Tweaktown, Guru3D, PCPer reviews are all up.

Based on cursory reading, in my opinion : good little card.

EDIT :
-card seems to have a coil whine problem (TT and PCPer clearly complained about it, meanwhile Guru3D remark : "a bit of coil noise").
-good power consumption, good temperature, PCPer review clearly showed that GPU clock is crippled by its power target.

 

[rtwjunkie]

almost 600 coments wtf!

tpu lose by dont have review of nano , come on tpu get an nano ..

TPU isn't losing. This conversation brings people here by virtue of it's popularity.

 

[64K]

Tom's Hardware has a review up. For some reason they benched the games at 1080p. That's not where Fiji performs the best but in most games they benched the GTX 980 was faster.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Deja vu ... i Swear this looks familiar.

 

[Ferrum Master]

For a thing that's much smaller than my.... ehhrmm... It turned out to pretty good actually...

Yeah the PR sucks really. But hey... they know what they asked for. The negative press will punish them.

But still, I wan't this thing slapped with a cooler from regular fury and that's it. They artificially made some sort of weird looking expensive thing.... Those got to be the poor yields... nothing else.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Review available right now on TP......I mean Guru3d (hint: its looking good)

 

[v12dock]

Looks like a great little card however all reviews are inferior to TPU

 

[Kohl Baas]

Yeah, life isn't fair, but we are not talking about pouting children (but adults and website, LOL!).

We are talking about how the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY runs their video cards (using AF) and AMD not doing that. This, to me, is a bit more than simply 'marketing their products in a specific way'. I mean, it is that, yes, but, they are going against what the majority uses, to make their card look better than it is when the 'overwhelming majority' uses them. It is misleading. If you expect 60 FPS because a review said so, now you are getting 45 because they don't use an incredibly common setting...... how is that OK?

Settings will differ from review to review, no doubt, but no AF? Come on....

Regarding to nVidia's statistics, the "OVERWHELMING MAJORITY" don't even set the resolution to a proper value because they don't know how to. They just use whatever settings the game have. And this means 90% of nVidia users.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Regarding to nVidia's statistics, the "OVERWHELMING MAJORITY" don't even set the resolution to a proper value because they don't know how to. They just use whatever settings the game have. And this means 90% of nVidia users.

Holy... nekkers spawning again...

 

[john_]

KitGuru attacked AMD this summer for not getting a Fury X and now they get a Nano?

Guys I believe after this thread you will get two Fury X2 cards


PS Not to mention Tom's Hardware that does always fair reviews of AMD hardware (.....stop laughing, this is serious )

 

[EarthDog]

Regarding to nVidia's statistics, the "OVERWHELMING MAJORITY" don't even set the resolution to a proper value because they don't know how to. They just use whatever settings the game have. And this means 90% of nVidia users.

WhaaaaT?

 

[john_]

Regarding to nVidia's statistics, the "OVERWHELMING MAJORITY" don't even set the resolution to a proper value because they don't know how to. They just use whatever settings the game have. And this means 90% of nVidia users.

You do have a point, but on the other hand, that's the reason Nvidia created GeForce Experience.

 

[Mussels]

Regarding to nVidia's statistics, the "OVERWHELMING MAJORITY" don't even set the resolution to a proper value because they don't know how to. They just use whatever settings the game have. And this means 90% of nVidia users.

my dad, and my grandparents (both sides of the family + fiancees) all use 1280x1024 even on 1080p monitors... IT HURTS. i get migraines using it, but they complain if i fix it.

 

[GhostRyder]

@GhostRyder

I see. Some of my buddies however are using liquid-cooling brackets for their 290, since it solves both heat & noise issues as they have the reference model for cheaps... said they too never have any throttling issues whatsoever after making the switch & is happy about it. Bracket I mentioned is Corsair's HG10 A1 Kit + Hydro H75 AIO Kit.

My trio are all under liquid as well, I generally test my cards under extreme conditions to make sure they function before putting liquid blocks on them. Cannot be to careful when it comes to components .

I have read some reviews including some over at techspot, it seems the card is actually a little better than I had at least hoped. Left at stock, the card stay quiet, has power consumption slightly above the GTX 980, and performs above the same areas at 1440p and 2160p. Seems the card does have a throttle in place that keeps the clocks in the range of 800-900mhz though to get that performance. However, you can increase the power limit by up to 50% which keeps the card at 1000mhz and that achieves almost identical performance to the Fury X (Minus a slight fps for the 50mhz difference).

Well this can be put to rest then, its not as bad as I thought it could be and they actually allow you to increase the power limit.

my dad, and my grandparents (both sides of the family + fiancees) all use 1280x1024 even on 1080p monitors... IT HURTS. i get migraines using it, but they complain if i fix it.

Maybe change it to 1080p and then increase the scaling so it looks bigger.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Maybe change it to 1080p and then increase the scaling so it looks bigger.

How do they use their smartphones? Wait, they don't use ones

 

[Mussels]

Maybe change it to 1080p and then increase the scaling so it looks bigger.

they LIKE it stretched sideways. they actually like the aspect ratio being off. i don't feel safe unless i'm around the glorious PC master race.

 

[Rahmat Sofyan]

Maybe this is why ...

 

[Ferrum Master]

Maybe this is why ...

uuh not very professional indeed... okay we can do some profanity in forums... but here in the article...Wh1zz jumped the gun.

 

[Mussels]

is there a source link for that saucy language?