On stage at the AMD E3 2015 press conference, AMD's CEO Lisa Su announced the Radeon R9 Nano, a 6-in PCB small form factor graphics card that will feature "2x the performance per watt of the R9 290X" as well as "significantly" more performance than the R9 290X.
We are looking for more information but because its branded R9 I don't know for sure if it's Fiji or Hawaii. I would assume that the advantages of HBM for form factor and power efficiency would tell us it uses AMD latest GPU in some cut down variation.
Availability later this summer.
UPDATE: Sources on the scene confirm it is Fiji powered!
GIVE.ME.A.FUCKING.PRICE
GIVE.ME.A.FUCKING.PRICE AMD!!!!!
i was so happy when i saw this and then they said its available later in the sumer, i was excited, then they said pricing comes near then.
goddamnit AMD
I know, right? But the
I know, right? But the pricing for the other cards seems nice. The most expensive one is still, what, $100 cheaper than the 980 TI, and has 8.6 TF/s. Yeah, the news has been nice.
The conference was a bit stilted though.
$650 Fury X
$550
$650 Fury X
$550 Fury
Considering that AMD’s GPUs are usually if not always better in the performance/dollar and the fact that 980Ti comes with 6GB RAM that it is a big marketing plus, I would say that Fury X is very close at 980Ti, if not faster, while Fury is much faster compared to 980 probably on higher resolutions.
The Skyrim modder in me wants
The Skyrim modder in me wants 6gb of vram though, not 4.
vram != hbu
because of the
vram != hbu
because of the difference in the way these types of memory work, you wont need 6GB of it. 4GB is enough… we’re not doing 8k graphics here.
And that is misinformed
And that is misinformed bullshit, 4GB stays 4GB and once it is filled up and the swapping starts performance will tank.
then stay with the one that
then stay with the one that got 6 Gb, this is not for you, simple.
There are a lot of features
There are a lot of features which will reduce memory usage. Some of them are DX12 though, so you will not be able to take advantage of them with DX11 games. AMD has claimed to have done driver work, but we won’t know for sure until we get benchmarks.
Well, they did announce their
Well, they did announce their new color compression a while ago and from what I understand, it will reduce memory use by ~20-25%. So no, it won’t be more than 4 GB, but the reduced usage should allow for similar results to older-compression 5ish GB.
this thing is soo fucking
this thing is soo fucking sexy
“2x the performance per watt
“2x the performance per watt of the R9 290X” as well as “significantly” more performance than the R9 290X.
So if it is even at same performance but at 2x performance per. that would give 290x performance at 150w range? (r9 290x ~ 290w)
The “significantly” more performance then the R9 290x would work if they went back to the 290w range giving it 2x performance?
Or lets say 200w range and give it a 30% more performance..
Either way if true, AMD has returned to the playing field with a nice card indeed.
“that would give 290x
“that would give 290x performance at 150w range”
what your missing is that that would be a single 6 pin card.
pretty much destroying the gtx 960 when it comes to power envelope. which means we are way more likely to see this insane amount of power in pre built systems.
hello new systems with only ~300w psu’s and being able to game at 4k.
suddenly a lot of the products at computex this year made more sense
Gimme!
Gimme!
So is this more efficient
So is this more efficient than Maxwell? It seems like half the power consumption of a 290x plus any performance increase would be.
Considering that Maxwell
Considering that Maxwell isn’t as efficient as Nvidia is advertising it, due to different ways of measuring wattage, probably yes.
If AMDs numbers are correct.
If AMDs numbers are correct.
Nice. Tiny VGA with gigantic
Nice. Tiny VGA with gigantic horsepower. Now what we need is some waterblock and … working drivers.
Nano. I wonder if we can
Nano. I wonder if we can imply anything from the marketing name as to the price point. The name “nano” to me comes with an expectation of a cost effective card or smaller in price to the higher end offering.
If your Aunt couldn’t afford to get you an expensive iPod for Christmas, what did she buy you? She bought a iPod Nano. It might be because Apple’s marketing of Nano is stuck in my head, but I wonder if the Nano is going to be a $225 ~ $300 USD card. A 960/270X priced card with the performance greater than 980/290X. That would be insane and probably to good to be true. It could also hurt sales of AMD’s 200 series cards.
The Nano could be a very good price per dollar contender.
No HDMI 2.0 support, instant
No HDMI 2.0 support, instant FAIL.
Dear Anon,
If this troubles
Dear Anon,
If this troubles you so, you can purchase a DisplayPort 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 cable.