AMD Radeon R9 NANO review

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I don't think AMD expects to be selling a ton of these. They've had a really hard time just keeping up with the stock for the Fury X. Considering how many people moan about price, the Fury was a much better value, but the Fury X still managed to be out of stock. Considering the Nano is basically the same chip, I don't expect them to have a lot of these in stock either. Once they catch up with the demand I'm sure the price will drop. If Nvidia ever sells something that competes with the Nano then I'm sure the price will drop even more.
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It performed better than I expected. But for such a price...nah
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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 $750.
Fury 540€ cheapest I found, Nano 699€, 980 ti 660€ (blower) and Fury X 660€.
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All Titans and all all dual-gpu cards ever were DOA too. They still sold enough apparently. I think you had mistaken this card to be FOR YOU. Id say a Nano is more "worth it" than a Titan even. If the performance per cm^3 is valued.
You missed my point, yes titan 1000$ price is dumb, but it will always sell more than any fury at that price, simply cause nvidia has larger crowd, and some good sheeps that like new shiny toys. AMD lost lot of marketshare to nvidia, they need their own 970, not to release a product that very very selective few people will buy. Titan will always sell more than Nano.
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I really don't get this. Instead of cutting it down from Fiji XT, they made it a full XT chip. Thus they are reducing the available stock for Fury X which is low to begin with. Then some guy said 'I know! Let's price it at 650$!'. I'm not even sorry for laughing anymore. They are just digging their own grave. AMD wake up!
not really, pricing in Australia reflects your economy and your salaries pretty well, it's certain parts of EU that normally get the shaft. Think 2 months salary to buy this and you'll get the idea.
Can confirm. Average salary in Romania = ~400EUR. 980Ti should reflect our economy but it's not even 650$, it's around 850EUR (950$). Ridiculous.
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I couldn't find the price on my fone, it's higher than the 980ti and fury x?
had a quick look on OcUK, you can buy these 980ti for £499 Palit Super Jetstream KFA2 Infin8 Black Edition Inno3D Herculez OC The cheapest Nano on OcUK is £529. They then go up to £549, £575 and £599. Cheapest FuryX is £549. It's kinda strange that nVidia have the fastest high end gpu in that £500 bracket, while it's also the cheapest.
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Fury 540€ cheapest I found, Nano 699€, 980 ti 660€ (blower) and Fury X 660€.
sadly add 100 to 150 Euro on all those price in here (thank custom and ecological tax).
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I want one! This is a great little card! Good performance and power usage, just that price tag :'(
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The name says it all when it comes to the price. Nah-no
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Great review! Pricing makes a bit more sense now seeing its above 980 in performance. Typo on last page Hilbert: Again, this product is intended for the living room. You dropped the word not.
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great little card, but let me get this straight: Radeon Nano full unlocked fiji core can overclock to 1070mhz on the core while air cooled and 280w power consumption. Fury X can barely reach 1170 water cooled and 380W power consumption. !!?!?! Am i missing something?
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Good card, too pricey. Cannae wait to get my Fury installed.
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sadly add 100 to 150 Euro on all those price in here (thank custom and ecological tax).
I just went to a german site where I could buy with rather small postage and get it delivered here 😀 so the prices are from there.
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It's an amazing card, but I don't see the point. The power usage is excellent, performance is very good and due to the price it actually makes the Fury X look like a better deal, but there are already supply problems with the Fury X and this card is going to exacerbate that. It has severely limited market appeal and seems to rely on the 'build it and they will come' ethos, but this isn't the card people need or want, supply is going to face the same problems as the Fury X and it certainly isn't going to help AMD regain market share. While it might look like I'm ragging on you AMD, my comments are borne out of frustration that you as a company don't seem to know what you're trying to achieve. Why go to the effort of producing something this frivolous when the company is in such difficulty? It's like the ship is sinking but the band is still playing. Stop over charging for your products and you'll sell more. That's what people want, stop trying to mimic Nvidia, that's why people loved AMD in the first place. Charging a premium price does not automatically make your product the market leader. Being the perceived underdog is a strength, not a weakness. I'm well out of the loop when it comes to buying all the new hardware and such but I do still have to read the graphics card reviews and what people are saying on the forums, why can't you see the same thing everyone else is seeing? Rant over, going for a lie down; hopefully I'll be dreaming of the good old days when people would buy multiple x800xt's purely on the off-chance they might be unlockable.
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Don't like the price either.. I mean wtf.
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This one will be great for Steam Machines I think.
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Well this is a let down 🙁 I was hoping it would have been much cheaper. £500 is totally out of my price bracket, and if I was dumping that much on a GPU you bet its going to be a 980 Ti. Looks like I am skipping a gen (again).
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It's an amazing card, but I don't see the point. The power usage is excellent, performance is very good and due to the price it actually makes the Fury X look like a better deal, but there are already supply problems with the Fury X and this card is going to exacerbate that. It has severely limited market appeal and seems to rely on the 'build it and they will come' ethos, but this isn't the card people need or want, supply is going to face the same problems as the Fury X and it certainly isn't going to help AMD regain market share. While it might look like I'm ragging on you AMD, my comments are borne out of frustration that you as a company don't seem to know what you're trying to achieve. Why go to the effort of producing something this frivolous when the company is in such difficulty? It's like the ship is sinking but the band is still playing. Stop over charging for your products and you'll sell more. That's what people want, stop trying to mimic Nvidia, that's why people loved AMD in the first place. Charging a premium price does not automatically make your product the market leader. Being the perceived underdog is a strength, not a weakness. I'm well out of the loop when it comes to buying all the new hardware and such but I do still have to read the graphics card reviews and what people are saying on the forums, why can't you see the same thing everyone else is seeing? Rant over, going for a lie down; hopefully I'll be dreaming of the good old days when people would buy multiple x800xt's purely on the off-chance they might be unlockable.
Idk, I don't see how they could charge less. For the Nano, maybe -- if they went with a different chip they could have done it. But for the Fury X? The actual size of the card is as big as the 980Ti, it has a water cooling loop and HBM yields/the R&D cost of that alone.. I doubt AMD is making much money on the Fury X to begin with, at least no where near as much as Nvidia makes on the 980Ti. So then what would be the solution? Ditch HBM? If they had gone with GDDR5, the card would be 40w higher and perform slightly worse than it already does. Maybe they could have sold it for $550 at that rate or something -- but they'd still have a card that costs as much as Nvidia's (manufacturing wise) and they'd be selling it for less. I think AMD is doing the best it can with what it has available. HBM is good for it's APU/HSA and it also has the added benefit of allowing creative/unique form factors for GPU's while cutting power a bit. I can't really see them going any other direction aside from somehow building a new architecture quicker. While GCN has aged nicely (mostly because of AMD's efforts with Mantle/Xbox One) it's definitely showing it's age when it comes to performance/power scaling. I mean look at this card, the difference between 175w and 280w is a few hundred mhz. Hopefully Greenland or w/e the codename for the new architecture is called fixes some of these issues, comes on 14nm with HBM2. Nvidia will probably only have 16nm available through TSMC, so they'll be at a slight disadvantage when it comes to density.
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I think AMD's biggest mistake was not having HDMI 2.0 or at least the included long awaited dongle.