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In Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, the player plays as a ranger by the name of Talion who has wraith-like abilities.In this open world video game, players have the freedom to pursue side quests and roam around the world.
We use a mixture of Ultra and High settings in Shadow of Mordor's for both resolutions and tested using the built-in benchmark. These quality settings were initially seen as the Ultra preset on our test system, although an adjustment in the game has shown to now be a custom profile.
This time it's the Asus R9 390X that overtakes the R9 Nano in terms of 1440P performance. AMD's R9 Nano is slightly faster than the GTX 980 STRIX at 1440P, although it cannot come close to the performance of the liquid-cooled Fury X.
The factory-overclocked R9 390X holds its position at 4K, which is likely thanks to its large – 8GB – frame buffer which Shadow of Mordor will happily eat into.
Shadow of Mordor was one of the games that put a particularly high tax on the R9 Nano in regards to GPU core clock. The 1440P setting saw the R9 Nano's GPU core clock average a little over 900MHz for the short benchmark run, while 4K dropped the core to below 900MHz on average.
Price!! AMD… I know it’s unique but you had a good opportunity to fight NVIDIA but you priced yourself too high (again).
And with their yield issues it will be priced even higher at retailers lol.
Who are you kidding?
I can’t see how they can charge the same as a Fury X and the Fury X has the added cost of watercooling.
Don’t matter on price, Gaming enthusiast’s will buy it just because of the size and performance it give’s, If people are willing to spend like 1500 for a titan X, I’m sure people will pay 1/3 of the price for the nano.
Can you cram Fury x into SFF case?
^ This, it delivers very well for the size/form factor in spades. But if anyone has the space/non ITX case to house longer cards the Nano isn’t for them, people just need to realize this and move on.
yes. Read a review somewhere (Hexus?) where they mentioned you could cram a Fury X into some mITX cases 🙂
Most mITX cases are long, to incorporate a full sized GFX card, you can for example get a Strix 980 into a Fractal Node 304. It’s only when you get down to stuff like the Coolermaster Elite 110 that an mITX card becomes necessary.
For £515 you can buy a 980Ti, unless you really needed a smaller card why would you purchase this ?
Indeed. Most of the people complaining about the niche this card lives in wouldn’t be buying one anyway, they’re just more interested in complaining about it.
Most of the complaining is from nvidia fanboys, trolls or paid shills. There is no way a sane consumer can be totally blind to the value proposition this card gives in ultra SFF compared to useless value the titan X gives when it is so overpriced for any form factor.
Of course there are some legitimate voices of dissatisfaction among those who really wanted to buy this card thinking it will be a more cut down version of Fiji chip and could be had for like 400-450 USD, those people have legit reasons to be slightly miffed but given the performance this thing shows they will quickly realize this card isn’t for them, the $549 R9 Fury is.
I would buy it with no hessitation, and I’m a full tower user.