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AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4GB Review

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3DMark has the R9 Nano slightly outperforming a factory-overclocked GTX 980 at 1080P, and widening that performance lead at 4K. The Fiji GPU is, by now, a known entity when it comes to resolution scaling – at 4K is where the Fiji- and HBM-based cards show their best relative performance, while the competition is typically able to claw back performance at lower resolutions.

AMD's water-cooled R9 Fury X shows what the unconstrained Fiji GPU is capable of in 3DMark. While the R9 Nano does sit roughly between the factory OC GTX 980 R9 Fury X in terms of performance, its numbers are closer towards the former than the higher-performing latter.

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12 comments

  1. Price!! AMD… I know it’s unique but you had a good opportunity to fight NVIDIA but you priced yourself too high (again).

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  2. And with their yield issues it will be priced even higher at retailers lol.

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  3. Who are you kidding?

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  4. I can’t see how they can charge the same as a Fury X and the Fury X has the added cost of watercooling.

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  5. Don’t matter on price, Gaming enthusiast’s will buy it just because of the size and performance it give’s, If people are willing to spend like 1500 for a titan X, I’m sure people will pay 1/3 of the price for the nano.

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  6. Can you cram Fury x into SFF case?

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  7. ^ This, it delivers very well for the size/form factor in spades. But if anyone has the space/non ITX case to house longer cards the Nano isn’t for them, people just need to realize this and move on.

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  8. yes. Read a review somewhere (Hexus?) where they mentioned you could cram a Fury X into some mITX cases 🙂

    Most mITX cases are long, to incorporate a full sized GFX card, you can for example get a Strix 980 into a Fractal Node 304. It’s only when you get down to stuff like the Coolermaster Elite 110 that an mITX card becomes necessary.

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  9. For £515 you can buy a 980Ti, unless you really needed a smaller card why would you purchase this ?

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  10. Indeed. Most of the people complaining about the niche this card lives in wouldn’t be buying one anyway, they’re just more interested in complaining about it.

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  11. Most of the complaining is from nvidia fanboys, trolls or paid shills. There is no way a sane consumer can be totally blind to the value proposition this card gives in ultra SFF compared to useless value the titan X gives when it is so overpriced for any form factor.

    Of course there are some legitimate voices of dissatisfaction among those who really wanted to buy this card thinking it will be a more cut down version of Fiji chip and could be had for like 400-450 USD, those people have legit reasons to be slightly miffed but given the performance this thing shows they will quickly realize this card isn’t for them, the $549 R9 Fury is.

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  12. I would buy it with no hessitation, and I’m a full tower user.

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