AMD Radeon R9 NANO review
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CalculuS
Those are actually quite impressive numbers, the price however is slightly less impressive.
Tbh, this will give AMD a little foothold though in the gpu market, or atleast I hope so :boozer:
gUNN1993
Looks like a great card for a niche market, a really niche market, honestly at least it seems more pragmatic than a Titan X.
Ryu5uzaku
It's like really great card with a silly price, niche market sure. Great review.
Ven0m
The performance looks really great, especially at this size, but it's way too expensive.
eclap
I was thinking all along this is a great little card, impressive. Then I saw the price. This is on par if not more expensive than the 980ti over here in the UK. No way.
randomizer
Oh a great performer but like everyone else on here, I agree it's going to be expensive. Especially down under, us Aussies are going to pay more!!!
Turanis
Thanks Hilbert,Great review.
Now we have to wait DX12 games and the battle for truth between Maxwell 2 and Fiji/Hawaii chips.
On water colling system will be a mini monster.
eclap
not really, pricing in Australia reflects your economy and your salaries pretty well, it's certain parts of EU that normally get the shaft. Think 2 months salary to buy this and you'll get the idea.
moab600
This card is DOA, not cause of bad performance, cause it has good performance.
Price is too premium and means nothing, 980TI can be picked at that price or even Fury X.
This product is for very small crowd, bad mistake by AMD, they need a product that the mass will want and buy.
looniam
nice job hilbert, methinks this will be the only "fair" review i shall be linking in other forums . . just saying.
fantaskarsef
Great review Hilbert, thanks for putting it inside a case too! 🙂
Personally I'm positively surprised by it's performance on the bench, but not inside a case. And imho, the case HH used isn't even small enough to make really good use of the card's small features, and there already we see thermal throttling by 15%.
Then again, the price isn't really something to ignore...
Ryu5uzaku
Both Fury X and 980 ti can be got for less then this. But I think the idea behind this card isn't to compete against those in price/performance anyway. I still think the really niche crowd is a bad move tho.
morbias
I'm so glad the NDA is up because this has been bugging me - why wasn't the Fiji Pro GPU used on this card instead of the full blown XT?
The XT already has low yields and using it on this card takes away GPUs needed for Fury X production.
Given the low power and heat constraints surely it would have made more sense to use the Pro from the outset, especially as imposing these design limitations on the XT GPU results in Pro performance anyway.
This would have cut production costs and made the price more competitive, no?
And as Hilbert mentions in the review, a 4k gaming card which would be perfect for HTPCs but no HDMI 2.0 - seems a little odd.
---TK---
I couldn't find the price on my fone, it's higher than the 980ti and fury x?
Denial
MSRP's for the same price -- $650. I don't know about Europe, but on Amazon I can't find a Fury X in stock for under $750.
cleverman
The price is high due to the memory being used.
Anything this new has a premium price we all know this stop saying its expensive, I bet there making no profit what so ever on these.
cowie
yeah a little better then 390x/980 performance for fury x/980 ti price makes you kinda worry about what they are thinking but they only made like 20 so no big loss jajaja
nice little card but big bad price
Undying
I still think they shoud've made Nano weaker, cut down from XT and place it in 350-400$ price range. I know that segment is crowded but still it would make such a card so much more appealing.
Denial
Uh you realize they sell the Fury non-X for $100 cheaper right, and those are in stock? Like if the Fury didn't exist, yeah you could make that argument -- but it does, it's cheaper and they obviously yield better.
cowie
maybe to show case hbm fail?(ddr4 anyone?) or how bad its gotten for amd or what? little to gian from this purchase go fury or x oh....and get a new case:)
if it kickes ass and was 55 or so ok but 650?
hell you can get a fury x that does not down clock as much
