A report from German-language tech site Golem contains what appears to be a slide leaked from AMD's GPU presentation at Hot Chips in Cupertino, and the results paint a very efficient picture of the upcoming Radeon R9 Nano GPU.
The spelling of "performance" doesn't mean this is fake, does it?
While only managing 3 FPS better than the Radeon R9 290X in this particular benchmark, this result was achieved with 1.9x the performance per watt of the baseline 290X in the test. The article speculates on the possible clock speed of the R9 Nano based on the relative performance, and estimates 850 MHz (which is of course up for debate as no official specs are known).
The most compelling part of the result has to be the ability of the Nano to match or exceed the R9 290X in performance, while only requiring a single 8-pin PCIe connector and needing an average of only 175 watts. With a mini-ITX friendly 15 cm board (5.9 inches) this could be one of the more compelling options for a mini gaming rig going forward.
We have a lot of questions that have yet to be answered of course, including the actual speed of both core and HBM, and just how quiet this air-cooled card might be under load. We shouldn't have to wait much longer!
personally ,i won’t pay more
personally ,i won’t pay more than $350
AMD has 2 presentations at
AMD has 2 presentations at Hot chips, one is on Carrizo, and the other is on their next generation of GPU microarchitecture(hopefully Arctic Islands), one is 8/24/15 and the other is 8/25/15. The Carrizo 35 watts parts(FX8800p) in Laptops running the part at up to the Full 35 watt design envelope is what I want to have, not any 15 watt thin and light, are there any laptops running the FX8800p, and a discrete GPU for dual graphics available yet?
I’ll pretty much pay whatever
I’ll pretty much pay whatever for a card this powerful, cool, and small!
Would be interesting to see
Would be interesting to see if you can software unlock the Nano like you can with the recent ASUS Fury cards.
it could already be a fully
it could already be a fully unlocked fiji gpu, problem is the cooler being size it is, its underclocked a bit to keep heat down.
You assume
You assume
He assumes correctly based on
He assumes correctly based on the current rumor mill.
It would be fun to see, what
It would be fun to see, what a Fury and Fury X Cards draws in power at 850MHz. anyone knows.?
Pricing will probably kill
Pricing will probably kill the value of this card, which is too bad.
No fucking doubt.
No fucking doubt.
Welcome to new tech. If the
Welcome to new tech. If the slides are right, 290x/390x will be a better value.
Better value? For mini itx?
Better value? For mini itx?
then a gtx970 probably be
then a gtx970 probably be what you would go for. Price i heard as rumor is like 500$ which would very possible.
Yes because everyone wants
Yes because everyone wants that funny math(3.5 = 4), and you are a known astroterfer/fanboy for Nvidia! You’ll have to get a sock puppet because that user name goes with a single brand! Your posts are very low key, but then those barbs come out and your true colors show.
AMD for is the per/$ leader and gaming usage in not the only usage for GPUs, more so now that most of the software ecosystem is catching up with the HSA types of usage. AMD has its version/implementation of HSA, as well as the other members of the HSA foundation will have theirs, but it will be a standardized form of HSA that comes out of the HSA foundation, and expect that Vulkan will improve AMDs performance like DX12 has been shown to improve AMD’s GPU performance. And its not just about gaming, there will be even more improvements with Arctic Islands, and HBM’s future iterations. Nvidia better get a seat at that HSA foundation, that HSA foundation is not all about just AMD. The Vulkan graphics API and SPIR-V is already showing the HSA foundations influence among the member of the Khronos groups various API committees, the very same committees that are represented among both the HSA foundation’s membership, and the Khronos group’s membership.
That performance bump for AMD’s GPUs will continue to get better, and there is an great deal of new work going on to improve the HSA aware software ecosystem, in mobile, and in the laptop/PC market as well. Intel could find itself behind in GPGPU compute abilities if it dies not start implementing more of the asynchronous computing and context switching/logical abilities into its GPU cores. Computing on the GPU, of any and all types are going to relegate the CPU to more of an OS stewardship role, than the CPU traditional computational role. Those massively parallel FP units on the GPU will not be bested by the CPU, and with GPUs cores acquiring more of the CPU types of logic and abilities the CPU as the main source of even general purpose computing power will be gradually supplanted by the GPU.
Both Nvidia, and Intel need to get in on the HSA types of standards, Nvidia is more so somewhat there with HSA types of abilities but too propitary with its direction, while Intel is still beating the x86 durm
correction to above post,
correction to above post, remove above post.
Yes because everyone wants that funny math(3.5 = 4), and you are a known astroterfer/fanboy for Nvidia! You’ll have to get a sock puppet because that user name goes with a single brand! Your posts are very low key, but then those barbs come out and your true colors show.
AMD for is the per/$ leader and gaming usage in not the only usage for GPUs, more so now that most of the software ecosystem is catching up with the HSA types of usage. AMD has its version/implementation of HSA, as well as the other members of the HSA foundation will have theirs, but it will be a standardized form of HSA that comes out of the HSA foundation, and expect that Vulkan will improve AMDs performance like DX12 has been shown to improve AMD’s GPU performance. And its not just about gaming, there will be even more improvements with Arctic Islands, and HBM’s future iterations. Nvidia better get a seat at that HSA foundation, that HSA foundation is not all about just AMD. The Vulkan graphics API and SPIR-V is already showing the HSA foundations influence among the member of the Khronos groups various API committees, the very same committees that are represented among both the HSA foundation’s membership, and the Khronos group’s membership.
That performance bump for AMD’s GPUs will continue to get better, and there is an great deal of new work going on to improve the HSA aware software ecosystem, in mobile, and in the laptop/PC market as well. Intel could find itself behind in GPGPU compute abilities if it dies not start implementing more of the asynchronous computing and context switching/logical abilities into its GPU cores. Computing on the GPU, of any and all types are going to relegate the CPU to more of an OS stewardship role, than the CPU traditional computational role. Those massively parallel FP units on the GPU will not be bested by the CPU, and with GPUs cores acquiring more of the CPU types of logic and abilities the CPU as the main source of even general purpose computing power will be gradually supplanted by the GPU.
Both Nvidia, and Intel need to get in on the HSA types of standards, Nvidia is more so somewhat there with HSA types of abilities but too propitary with its direction, while Intel is still beating the x86 drum.
So a gtx970 starts at 300$ vs
So a gtx970 starts at 300$ vs r9 nano that starts at 500$. And both are about same performance wise. That is pretty LARGE per/$ no matter how you cut it. 970 can overclock like a beast and would keep pace with that nano who even now we don’t even know if it will run a reasonable temp’s with that small cooler on it.
HSA bla bla bla. is this
HSA bla bla bla. is this Spigzone clone or something? you got to be kidding me right? intel need HSA? call whatever you want about intel their xeon phi are used more in HPC than AMD Firepro. intel doesn’t need GPGPU at all to fight AMD and nvidia. looking at top500 list for supercomputer intel just need to put their focus on beating nvidia. AMD already out.
AMD always come with ‘awesome’ technology on papers and slides but in reality that tech usually does not pull them into the leader than you talk about. and in professional world proprietary vs open standard comes second after result.
If this was priced to compete
If this was priced to compete with their mid-range cards then I would say woo hoo, but I’m thinking this will replace the 290X. Now we just wait and see if it is 290X prices circa introduction or 290X prices circa now.
lol AMD leak slides……we
lol AMD leak slides……we see stuff like this for years already. doesn’t matter if they are fake or not when we can’t even trust their own slides that unveiled by AMD themselves.
i hope u guys avoid to trust
i hope u guys avoid to trust any Sebastian Peak review. majority stuff just gimmick & bias. read for entertainment still consider acceptable.
Sebastian doesn’t do GPU
Sebastian doesn’t do GPU reviews. But reality rarely lives up to fiction AMD loves to paint.
i didn’t gpu but other review
i didn’t gpu but other review like mouse, monitor etc..
Don’t worry, I’ll make sure
Don’t worry, I’ll make sure that I live up to YOUR definition of what’s “acceptable” instead of, you know, thinking for myself or something.
hahaha…OMG
AMD = desperate
hahaha…OMG
AMD = desperate wafer rapists
Nano = 8,9 B transistors
GTX980 = 5,2 B transistors
and similar performance
There goes your money AMD
Die allready, yours technology is second grade or worst
Damn straight, can’t fcking
Damn straight, can’t fcking Samsung, Intel or Qualcomm start making dGPU’s already to complete against Nvidia FFS
The technology was built more
The technology was built more for dx12. Also, why would you want AMD to die so Nvidia would become a monopoly? Nobody is forcing you to buy anything. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. That’s like saying all cable companies should die except for Comcast or only Samsung should make TVs. How stupid are you?
“Die allready”
You’re either
“Die allready”
You’re either an nvidia shill or retarded if you think that would be a good thing for consumers.