AMD Radeon R9 Nano

[krazy_olie]

I have little interest in this specific card but I like the idea of binning for a sweet spot on the power/performance curve.. which is sorta what laptop chips do but expect to see some more of this in the future.

[abychristy]

Finally a card from AMD that is power efficient and performs immeasurably great for its price, and this helps all those small cases and I believe there might be a steam box featuring this card in the upcoming few months...

[Jace007]

Silly question, Why isn't this a 8GB Card with HBM taking up less space ?

[watercooled]

8GB isn't currently feasible for technical reasons to do with the HBM memory. It's really a non-issue though aside from losing a marketing bullet point.

[Plasmastorm]

8GB isn't currently feasible for technical reasons to do with the HBM memory. It's really a non-issue though aside from losing a marketing bullet point.

Well they say it's not feasible but then why didn't they start with 1gb or 2gb on a card. Just smells like a marketing ploy to magically have 8gb HBM on the 'Next Gen' to me in all honesty.

[watercooled]

I don't follow? HBM is only used on Fiji, a large high-end GPU so they're obviously going to give it a larger amount of VRAM.

Unless they used the rumoured dual-link HBM stacking which wasn't ready, or went with a double-wide bus which would have added significantly to cost and die size (therefore probably reducing shader count as they're up against the reticle size already), >4GB of HBM1 is not feasible. That's pretty well-understood.

If 8GB was easily achieveable for negligible cost then I imagine they would have done it, if for nothing else other than marketing and avoiding the predicable complaints when comparing it to the 390X and 980Ti memory amounts.

[jab701]

Pity it isn't low-profile....(I know it is short but it is too talk for many mini-itx HTPC cases!)

[OilSheikh]

Quick question - what's the point of cards like this when one can buy a bigger card? Do the Nano cards take a perofrmance hit or lose the ability to OC ?

[aidanjt]

Too bad about the coil whine, otherwise this would have been the ultra-compact ITX champ hands down.

[Ksyruz]

Wonder if AMD will Allow PowerColor to make a Devil 13 or ASUS to bring the Ares IV with two of these in one form factor.

[scaryjim]

Wonder if AMD will Allow PowerColor to make a Devil 13 or ASUS to bring the Ares IV with two of these in one form factor.

The concept micro-PC that was announced at the same time as the Fury series had a dual-Fiji graphics card, so there are already reference boards out there, and the only thing I can see stopping a Fury X2 would be a lack of dies/interposers preventing a worthwhile production run.

With a single card at 175W TDP and both AMD and nvidia playing free and loose with the PCIe specs to push cards to 375W and beyond, you could easily get two of these on a single board and even have them clock slightly higher than the Nano....

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Tarinder - is it possible to run an extended gaming test in an SG05 over 30 minutes to see if the Nano and the mini-ITX GTX970 throttles or not??

[qasdfdsaq]

Silly question, Why isn't this a 8GB Card with HBM taking up less space ?

The same reason the Fury X isn't an 8GB card.