We are not the only ones investigating usage scenarios for AMD's tiny R9 Nano, [H]ard|OCP has also recently looked at this card to determine if or when there is a good reason to pay the extra price for this tiny GPU. This particular review focuses on performance against a similarly sized Gigabyte GTX 970 in a Cooler Master Elite 110, there will be a follow up in which the cards will run inside a Corsair Obsidian Series 250D case. At 1080p the cards performed at very similar levels with the significantly more expensive Nano holding a small lead while at 1440p the R9 Nano truly shines. This card is certainly not for everyone and both the FuryX and GTX 980 Ti offer much better performance at a simliar price point but neither of them will fit inside the case of someone determined to build a tiny gaming machine.
"This evaluation will compare the new retail purchased Radeon R9 Nano with a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 N970-IX-OC small form factor video card in a mini-ITX Cooler Master Elite 110 Intel Skylake system build. We will find out if the higher priced Nano is worth the money for a 1440p and 1080p gameplay experience in a tiny footprint. "
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- AMD R9 Nano 4GB CrossFire @ eTeknix
- The ITX GPU Battle: R9 Nano vs GTX 970 Mini @ Hardware Canucks
- Club3D R9 Nano 4GB @ eTeknix
- PowerColor Radeon R9 390 PCS+ @ Kitguru
- AMD Tonga & Fiji Open-Source Performance Boosted By PowerPlay Patches @ Phoronix
- Workstation Graphics Card Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Asus ROG Matrix GTX 980Ti Platinum Edition @ Kitguru
“This particular review
“This particular review focuses on performance against a similarly sized Gigabyte GTX 980 in a Cooler Master Elite 110″
Don’t you mean 970?
“This card is certainly not for everyone and both the FuryX and GTX 970 Ti offer much better performance at a simliar price point”
Don’t you mean 980 Ti?
….don’t worry, Jeremy, I’m just bustin your chops. lolol
Jeremy is recovering from NIS
Jeremy is recovering from NIS (numpad inversion syndrome). We all wish him our best.
….VERY well played.
….VERY well played.
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From the review “At “Ultra”
From the review “At “Ultra” setting at 1440p XFX Radeon R9 Nano is a whopping 48% faster. ”
Nano AVG 63fps, GTX 970 42fps
lowest Fps for the nano was 50fps, only 35 with the GTX
Ands thats with some old dx11 game, NOT using the new AMD windows 10 drivers or the async compute.
In contrast the GTX 970 is at its peak under dx11 at the driver & HW level… So what you get wont get any better.
But in the end, even if the nano (with its superior HW & GPU design for Dx12) was $350 , I would not buy it. price/performance ratio is horrible.
Get a 290x off ebay for $200, those cards have better & faster HW then a GTX 980, and settle with a 3 inch longer case and save $450. Tune it way down to perform like a GTX 970, and i will be silent.
Case closed…
Why stop at DX11 testing?
Why stop at DX11 testing? Might as well test DX9 and go back to DX5. These card reviews get worse and worse. The new AMD card review brought to you by our Nvidia sponsors.
Well the Nano will come down
Well the Nano will come down in price once AMD gets its next generation of GCN to market. So it will be nice to see the pricing on the Nano when it’s no longer Bleeding edge. I’m waiting for when The Nano has been out for a year, and its replacement is released, because the Nano will still be a nice SKU, even nicer at a lower price point. Nvidia will not have any HBM compatible competition for the Nano, even with the Nano’s HBM memory, as Nvidia will be using all its HBM2 in its flagship card, and Nvidia still may not have enough HBM2 available for large runs of its top end SKUs.
P.S. Wait for the Nano
P.S. Wait for the Nano benchmarks with Vulkan/DX12 as the new graphics APIs will allow for the Nano to really shine! Nvidia will still be context switching in software, while the Nano will have that GPU processor thread context switching in hardware, with no wasted GPU execution resources for lack of efficient hardware based GPU thread dispatch!
It was announced 2 months ago
It was announced 2 months ago the Hynix as well as Samsung will be supplying HBM2 for Nvidia.
AMD is only going to get it from Hynix.
Other ram manufacturers will also start manufacturing HBM2.
But manufacturers want some payment up front, and cash is something AMD is short on, they are in debt already.
AMD gits first dibs on the
AMD gits first dibs on the Hynix HBM2, so that leaves any remaining HBM2 for Hynix to sell to Nvidia! So If any Hynix HBM2 remains after AMD’s needs are filled, Nvidia can get some. Samsung’s HBM2 needs to be certified and tested while Hynix’s HBM2 is probably already certified seeing how the AMD/Hynix partnership has the lead in developing their technology! And HBM2 should be a drop-in replacement for HBM on AMD’s current/newer GPUs, so AMD will only need to wait for HBM2 production to ramp up from Hynix, while Nvidia will have to be doing extensive development and testing and hope that Samsung can ramp up a new HBM2 process of its own. The HBM standard is the only thing that is open for Samsung to use, not Hynix’s exact Patentable process for its implementation of the HBM/HBM2 standard. Samsung is going to have to invent its own HBM2 process to implement the HBM/HBM2 JEDEC standard so Samsung is behind in the engineering process. AMD is ahead on the HBM front, while Nvidia and Samsung have extensive new engineering and certification testing to accomplish!
I don’t see the point over a
I don’t see the point over a case like a Corsair 250D, which is almost the same width, less then 3 inches taller and deep enough that I can fit in mine a Titan X, a 120 x 60 rad and a dual 120 x 30 rad. The point isn’t to show off but that case could easily fit a Fury X and a closed loop CPU cooler
For not all that much smaller you are having to use smaller cards with less performance.
[H]ard|OCP
The only site
[H]ard|OCP
The only site where people can be mislead to think that a GTX 970 is faster than a Nano.
I personally wonder if companies pay for the settings they use in their graphs, considering that many people only “read” graphs. Like in the way many food companies pay supermarkets to secure the best selves in the stores for their products.
That’s the online technology
That’s the online technology press for you! It’s very ad driven, and free evaluation samples(cherry picked) driven, and promotional paid articles, masquerading as reviews, driven. When the very companies’ products that are supposed to be impartially reviewed by the online technology press are also listed for sale with paid advertising for the very same companies products on the very websites doing the reviews, well that should ring a few bells. So what’s new with those doctored tables, and marketing spin! Benchmarking is right on that list, after lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The review was indeed very
The review was indeed very positive, they awarded the the gold.. “We understand why the Nano video card is priced as it is. That price does buy you the best small form factor performance in the smallest and quietest package available. The Radeon R9 Nano is a marvel of engineering,..”
My 250d has an Asus Strix 390
My 250d has an Asus Strix 390 … as a stop-gap for the 14/16nm nodes. (390 is an amazing improvement over what I was using in my previous build.)
The Fury cards are both niche solutions and a proof of concept (IMO) of HBM. AI and Pascal are both going to be very good so in ~6 months I’ll probably have a different GPU in this cute little black cube.