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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday introduced its highly-anticipated AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, which combines massive performance with relatively low power consumption and ultra-small form-factor. The new graphics card uses fully-fledged “Fiji” graphics processor and its peak compute performance even exceeds that of Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce GTX Titan X.
Small form-factor, unbeatable performance
The AMD Radeon R9 Nano is not a small brother to the flagship Radeon R9 Fury X, but a graphics card that offers nearly similar performance, which means that it is essentially a competitor. The miniature graphics adapter sports “Fiji” graphics processing unit with 4096 stream processors, 256 texture mapping units, 64 raster operations pipelines and 4096-bit interface for high-bandwidth memory operating at 1GHz. The board carries 4GB of HBM memory with 512GB/s bandwidth.
Compute performance of the AMD Radeon R9 Nano is 8.2TFLOPS, which just 5 per cent below that of the top-of-the-line Radeon R9 Fury X and which is considerably higher than compute performance of Nvidia’s flagship offering, the GeForce GTX Titan X (6.2TFLOPS).
According to AMD, the Radeon R9 Nano is at least 30 per cent faster than any mini-ITX graphics card available today (i.e., Nvidia GeForce GTX 970) in various games in ultra-high-definition 4K (3840*2160) resolution. Thanks to ultimate compute performance of the novelty, that difference will only increase over time as games take advantage of compute capabilities of GPUs.
AMD’s “Fiji” graphics processing unit based on the GCN 1.2 architecture fully supports all modern technologies and application programming interfaces, including DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL 2.1, Vulkan, Mantle, FreeSync and other.
“With the Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, AMD is enabling 4K class gaming in your living room in an exceptionally quiet, ultra-small design built to excel in today's games and on the latest APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulkan,” said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager of product, computing and graphics business unit at AMD. “There simply is nothing else like it.”
State-of-the-art design
The miniature AMD Radeon R9 Nano uses 6” printed circuit board specially developed for high-end graphics cards. The card will fit into any mini-ITX system that is compatible with dual-slot graphics adapters.
The board features 4+1-phase voltage regulator module based on high-end solid-state chokes as well as International Rectifier’s IR3564B dual-output digital multi-phase controller used on advanced mainboards. The VRM is extremely sophisticated and features additional chokes to stabilize and clean power in a bid to ensure stable operation in rather extreme conditions. The card has one 8-pin auxiliary PCI Express power connector.
Too cool-down the card, which can dissipate up to 175W of power, AMD developed a special cooling system featuring one vapour chamber, numerous heat-pipe, an aluminum radiator and a 90mm fan that can exhaust heat in multiple directions. The cooler looks similarly to the one used on the Radeon R9 Fury X and features brushed aluminium finishes and multiple metal parts in order to ensure minimal vibration. The fan reportedly produces 42dBa of noise.
The graphics adapter features three DisplayPort 1.2a outputs as well as one HDMI 1.4 connector.
Price and availability
AMD’s partners will begin to sell the Radeon R9 Nano graphics boards under their own brands starting from the 10th of September. The manufacturer suggested retail price of the Radeon R9 Nano will be similar to that of the Radeon R9 Fury X: $649 in the U.S., £509 in the U.K. and €629 in Eurozone.
In the first three months of availability, all AMD Radeon R9 Nano will be manufactured by a contract maker under supervision of Advanced Micro Devices and then sold to partners. Three months from now select AIB suppliers may release their own mini-ITX graphics cards based on the “Fiji” graphics processing units similar to AMD’s Radeon R9 Nano.
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KitGuru Says: Small form-factor, limited power consumption, extreme compute performance and great performance in games make AMD’s Radeon R9 Nano a very attractive product. Its MSRP is rather high, but its competitors – AMD Radeon R9 Fury X and Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti – consume more power and are larger. Therefore, if you are building a mini-ITX PC to play video games in 4K UHD resolution, you really don’t have a lot of choice here.
This is the best Asslicking to AMD, ever and forever!!! A propaganda article with many black kisses like these ones:
“Thanks to ultimate compute performance of the novelty, that difference
will only increase over time as games take advantage of compute
capabilities of GPUs.” (sure, boy. don’t say nothing about the “issue” of reported results with hilarious configs like 0xMSAA and 0xAnisotropic filter).
“The board features 4+1-phase voltage regulator module based on high-end
solid-state chokes as well as International Rectifier’s IR3564B
dual-output digital multi-phase controller used on advanced mainboards.
The VRM is extremely sophisticated and features additional chokes to
stabilize and clean power in a bid to ensure stable operation in rather
extreme conditions. ”
So, a weak configuration of VRMs (4+1) now are the best one, again, sure boy!
“AMD developed a special cooling system featuring one vapour chamber,
numerous heat-pipe, an aluminum radiator and a 90mm fan that can exhaust
heat in multiple directions. ”
What? now amd developed the vapor chamber, with heatpipes and a central fan with aluminum radiator that can exhaust heat in TWO directions, to the cage and out of there. Boy, do you know nothing about the GTX 690 and another similar designs? XD
“The graphics adapter features three DisplayPort 1.2a outputs as well as one HDMI 1.4 connector.”
Wow, and you are very quite about the absence of HDMI 2.0, a must-have to a miniITX card that pretends to be the election for a HTPC that, in many cases, will be connected to a 4k tv. You know, almost ALL of them only use HDMI 2.0 to reach 4K resolution.
And more, more black kisses from kitguru to AMD.
You are trying hard to please AMD because AMD punished you with the launch of the Fury X, you know, when you made a “hard” review about R9 390s and you dare about the reality of a renamed product with higher MSRP and with a little preOced to justify it (and yes, gazillions of extra-bytes for the sake of nonsense, 8 GB of VRAM, doubling the top card of AMD!!! XD).
All your complaints about AMD, where you drop them? And your pride and decency?
$649 for this card? hahahaha, you dun goofed AMD?
You can get SLI GTX 970 Mini for cheaper $600 which destroy R9 Nano.The 970 Mini is only 1.5cm longer.
You can get Fury X/980Ti for the same price which have better VRM and overclocking and stock performance. Fury X fit perfectly in a ITX case too.
AMD need to go to rehab because the whole management up there is clearly high on something. And its not success.
Worst price ever for a tiny card with crappy cooling, poor overclocking possibilites and slightly better performance than GTX 970 (You are not tricking me this time with your 0xAF benchmarks with Nano just like the BS benchmarks you presented with Fury X against 980Ti). You can get a GTX 970 Mini for $300 for crying out loud.
I know why AMD won’t put it at £550, because Nvidia have so much money they can afford to drop the 980Ti to £550 too so they wouldn’t actually undercut them and then they’d end up with less profit.
So now we’re at the point where Nvidia now control the prices, and in a few years there won’t be any competition from AMD so the flagships will cost 4 figures, YAY?
but but Lisa Su said that pricing their products at a premium automatically makes them better! They don’t want to be labeled the “cheap” alternative so i guess now they wanna be called the “stupidly overpriced” alternative LOL
Lisa Su has dug AMD’s grave…she must be doing this on purpose to cash out before she gets let go. 2016 will have a new AMD CEO for sure.
So Ngreedia charges 1K$ , 3k$ , whatever price they want and get admired all the time by fools like you.
Now AMD is charging 650$ for a 600mm2 GPU same as the Titan X(1k$), and you tell me it’s unwise to do so?
Can you tell me where have you been when Ngreedia charged 3k$ for Titan Z(titz)?
“stupidly overpriced alternative”
this honor has been claimed by Ngreedia already, courtesy of tits LOL.
At least the Titan X has better performance than all competitors, unlike the Nano which is equal performance to last gen cards lawl
LOL you must be the last AMD fan in denial. Not even you will buy the Nano to support the sinking ship that is AMD. GG not supporting your own fav brand.
At least i’m a fan, not a paid shill like you and many others, who are working 24/7 to bash AMD and steal customers. I don’t know how much Ngreedia pay you per month?
50$ per month? more? I don’t think so, cause you are cheap while Ngreedia is Greedy.
Go sleep for a while and think of better job.
Yo i didnt even know that job exists! Where do i sign up where i get $50/month so i can buy a new video card a year! That’s awesome if nvidia did that!
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Thing is, it can’t effectively play 4K so why is that used on the press release? Also for mini-itx, Xfire isn’t an option, so what really matters is it’s 1080p/2560k performance, which I doubt will be anything mind-blowing.