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Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure game played from either a first-person or third-person view. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story.
Outside of missions, players can freely roam the open world. Composed of the San Andreas open countryside area and the fictional city of Los Santos, the world of Grand Theft Auto V is much larger in area than earlier entries in the series.
The world may be fully explored from the beginning of the game without restrictions, although story progress unlocks more gameplay content. (Wikipedia).
We set all of GTA V's settings to their highest levels for both resolutions but made sure to disable the performance-crippling MSAA settings. We saw the game use almost 4GB of VRAM at 2560×1440 and around 4.5GB at 4K (where possible with the relevant video cards). The built-in benchmark is used to gather performance data.
Performance data from the AMD R9 295X2 unfortunately could not make it into the charts as the card has a bug with our test monitor that prevents GTA V's benchmark from operating.
GTA V shows a preference towards Nvidia's hardware at 2560×1440. The Asus GTX 980 STRIX leapfrogs the R9 Nano, which now sits above the factory-overclocked R9 390X. A frame rate of almost 60 FPS means that the stock-clocked R9 Nano will deliver an enjoyable gaming experience in GTA V while using the 1440P resolution and Very High image settings.
4K sees the Fiji-based R9 Nano outperforming the GTX 980. Given that these GTA V settings and the 4K resolution will happily use more than 4.5GB of VRAM, the R9 Nano seems to be enjoying some of the same benefits that the Fury X saw thanks to its high-bandwidth memory. GTA V seems to be allowing the 4GB frame buffer to use its speed as a way of alleviating the higher VRAM usage that other graphics cards were hit with.
GTA V was one of the more positive game engines when it comes to allowing the R9 Nano's GPU core clock to flex its speed. At 1440P the R9 Nano was able to hit its 1GHz maximum core clock and the average reading was in the high-900MHz range. 4K also saw the card run at an average core clock of more than 900MHz.
The overclocked R9 Nano configuration saw a healthy performance gain at 4K. The average GPU core clock speed sat a little over the 1GHz mark, although this came at the price of a noticeably higher fan speed increasing noise output.
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.