AMD Radeon R9 Nano Faster than GeForce GTX 980 + Pricing
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thesebastian
Yeah but if it costs US $649.99 It'll be only for the smallest ITX cases considering the price.
Not recommended for the people who have a big or huge ITX case (BitFenix, Phanteks).
I used to have a Gigabyte 970 ITX in a Coolermaster Elite 110 case (small/mid ITX case). Almost reaching thermal throttle (79C) in Winter and entirely throttled in Spring/Summer.
So a 960 was a better option for that case or maybe this Fury Nano (with more performance).
Kaarme
If it costs that much, it's indeed intended solely for those who absolutely need a tiny card and money isn't an issue. All in all Fury pricing at large makes me think AMD (GlobalFoundries) can't manufacture the chips in excessive quantities and thus they are selling as much as they are able to produce despite the high prices. But then again, they wouldn't be making much profit if they always set their prices considerably cheaper than Nvidia. I don't see them raising their market share this way, though.
Barry J
Maybe AMD don't have many Nano's the high price will reduce sales. Or the price is wrong.
mitzi76
Hardly surprising due to how hot it is there...
p.s have seen projects here by people who have done the smallest builds and still used a card like a 980...so I get what AMD is doing but at that price i'd buy a better case and then struggle to make everything fit. And save up for aircon!
rl66
if it does what AMD tell us :stewpid:...
then they have the worse line designer in the world as 1 and maybe 2 GPU in the Fury line, are in concurence in price and/or in performance (on a gen line of only 3 videocard !!!) :3eyes:.
so i wait after the guru3D review... until that:
it is cute 🙂 (i love itx's stuff)
rl66
they won't get richer if they kept them at home lol.
Fox2232
Would like to point out that it is supposed to be UP-TO 30% faster than 970mITX.
And gtx 980 is 10~25% faster than gtx 970 based on game.
From AMD's slides it is more like 20% faster in most cases, so I would put it at best 5% above gtx980 in average.
Clouseau
All this guessing about pricing makes me laugh. All one needs to remember is that AMD has said, at Furry launch, that initial supplies are going to be low. With price and supply having an inverse relationship, all the Furry lineup is going to be priced higher than they would normally have been. Also, comparing prices with Nvidia's cards, that are not supply restricted, is pointless. Simple fact, these cards are going to be priced higher than usual because there is not going to be enough to go around.
rl66
you can still WC it even in ITX chassis:
-a Waterblock
-tube
-a pump/radiator in 120
-a fan
-a "Y" and a fillport (optional but permit to check coolant level)
this is what i have used in a friend's Coolermaster Elite 110
i have kept the CPU in air cooling as the psu cool it twice 🙂
NAMEk
Is it only me, or anyone else wouldn't buy it even if it cost 300USD
theoneofgod
I would.
Anarion
So it would be probably on par with GTX 970 at 1,5 GHz or maybe not quite. It probably has no overclocking potential though. At that price I don't think it's a good buy.
Ryu5uzaku
Then Nano would be rather bad it would lose to overclocked 390 and 390x too. Fury would stomp all over it really nicely. Not even talking about 980 😀
Redemption80
Your paying for the size and power efficiency though, you could base a really small but powerful PC around one of these.
Saying that, I'm not convinced there is huge market for these type of cards in that price range.
Kaarme
I don't believe there's a huge market for any type of card at that price range. Isn't the upper limit of the huge market potential at around the 970's price?
Redemption80
Pretty much, I don't imagine it's any different with Mini ITX cards either.
The prices might be wrong, but it makes sense if it actually is just a full Fiji card.
fl2015
I think most were expecting this to be a budget card therefore a lot of people might be disappointed that this wasn't aimed at more lower end markets than the fury/fury x.
It's good performance for small builds but doesn't help those who were looking for something to stomp on the 970/390 for the same/similar price point.
ubercake
Lots of heat in a small package
With that much work going on in such a small area, you can count on lots of heat and subsequent fan noise.
Denial
I think when VR hits off, especially with Valve/SteamOS this can be pretty decent for that. AMD needs to work on it's linux drivers though.
Kaarme
I plead guilty. Although not really for thinking it's a budget card. Even 970 or 390 are hardly budget cards. 960 and 380 might already be getting there. However, I was hoping it would be around 390(X)'s price. I really need a new card to replace my current ancient one, yet I'd loath to get an old tech rebrand 390(X) and pay for useless extra 4GB of memory to boot. So, I was hoping Nano would be a cheaper new generation card.
