R9 Nano, AMD Dissapoints again

[dukethedj]

I seem to be talking about the same case again and again...

[QueenDemetria]

http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mini-itx-elite-series/elite110/

Great case, just don't expect to be air cooling and use a non-modular PSU in there

This sums up the point of this GPU nicely:

[dukethedj]

Cooler Master Siedon 120 already has cooling for this . I'd have to look into this, no where near building a new PC right now.new things will be out by then.

 

Yeah. I have a Seidon 120v and it works great.

[dukethedj]

This sums up the point of this GPU nicely​

 

I wouldn't be surprised if Newegg or Amazon bundled this case and the Fury Nano together.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Doesn't beat the 980 at all

 

Lol, find me a 980 in "nano" size. 

[QueenDemetria]

Lol, find me a 980 in "nano" size. 

#legit

[ivryk]

I mean, I feel Maxwell architecture screams! to be overclocked, the Gtx 980 with a decent OC will beat easily the R9 Nano and trade blows with the aircooled Fury. Nonetheless the Nano is a really interesting card, if they lower the price a bit, it will be a really good value.

 

[xAcid9]

The card basically running at 870ish mhz average and beating a reference 980 at similar power consumption and much smaller size. Great little card with not so great price.

[Praesi]

I wonder how big the marked for ultra small PC´s is.

I know nobody who ever had such a thing or plan to build one.

[Lethal Seraph]

Good card but overpriced.

[Andrew Sh]

So Hardware Cannuaks just put up their video of AMD's new R9 Nano iTX card.

https://youtu.be/NsjwQ1TwgIY

The TL;DR is, it's slightly slower then an R9 Fury (non-X) for the same price of the Fury X and 980 ti of $650. This card IMO is completely stupid, most iTX cases now a days support full length GPU, which in that case (no pun intended) you would be much better getting a 980 ti. This card is only if you are doing an ULTRA compact PC and want the most powerful thing you can get. But it has it's drawbacks. First it's a hot running card. Usually in tight cases you want a blower cooler to get the hot air out of the case, this isn't, and while the core as only getting around 70-75C, then VRAMs were pushing 90C. You will need super good airflow for this card. The other problem was, this thing had the worst coil whine I have ever seen. This might just be their sample, but this thing sounded like a dentist's drill that was running on Nitro, it was insane.

So estially this card makes absolutely no sense. It's WAY to expensive. It's designed for ultra-compact rigs, but in the cases it's designed for most of the time the airflow is going to be so bad, that the card is going to throttle (HC's review with the card was done in a ATX cases keep that in mind when you are watching reviews of this card) And maybe it has terrible coil whine. So unless you have a super small PC with good airflow and want the best card possible this is what you want, otherwise avoid this like the plague.

(I can' trait for idiots on PCPP to starting making full tower builds with these and i7s LOL)

That's true technically. This card is aimed at tiny builds. Which will be a rare thing tbh. Most itx cases could hold a bigger card no prob. The performance is awesome for such a small card but I think they overpriced it heavily

It beats the 980 while having lower power draw and a similar TDP - not half bad for AMD really.

[Andrew Sh]

The only,problem I see with the card is that it should be priced at $550-$500. If it was around that and I wanted a smal, system I'd buy it.

Spot on mate. The performance is awesome for the size. Was thinking the same, if it has a more competitive price to the 980, it would be a more viable purchase

[Mikjul]

Seems a really baity title, you my friend need to work on your words.

 

R9 380 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GTX 960

R9 390 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GTX 970

[theLSK]

Talk about being a mindless fanboy – writing such a biased and misleading title. 

 

The Nano is expensive for what you're getting, that's undeniable. The card itself though, is impressive independently of what AMD are charging for it. Beating the GTX 980 in pretty much every single benchmark in such a small little package is not an easy feat. It doesn't scream "buy me" like the 980 Ti did when it was released, but not many GPUs do anymore. Hopefully the next iteration with HBM2 will. 

 

It'll be interesting to see how Nvidia respond to this, considering the best SFF option using their architecture right now is the Gigabyte/Asus ITX 970 3.5GB, which are left in dust by the Nano. 

[Hieb]

Also, stop with the, "Well this card does't suck because it's impressive that AMD, did this, or did that" it's an overpriced card, that fills a very small niche, it's pretty pointless

 

Fair enough, the card is overpriced... AMD with this generation of cards is really hoping to pull in some extra dollars for 'premium' products with the Fury lineup. It should cost the same as the Fury non-X imo.

 

 

I really do think AMD fucked up with the Fury, I wish they had just kept with their already existing naming scheme and not rebranded (or whatever it's supposedly called) like crazy. 

 

I just want a HD 9990 (2 390Xs on one card). 

 

Agree completely... been saying this since as soon as the Fury lineup was announced, I think the lineup should have looked like this:

 

R9 390X - Fiji XT (Fury X)

R9 390 - Fiji (Fury)

R9 380X - Hawaii XT (R9 290X)

R9 380 - Hawaii (R9 290)

R9 370X - Tonga XT (R9 M295X)

R9 370 - Tonga (R9 285)

R7 360X - Pitcairn XT (R9 270/HD 7870)

R7 360 - Pitcairn (R7 265/HD 7850)

R7 350X - Bonaire XT (R7 260X)

R7 350 - Bonaire (R7 260)

[gilang01]

the gpu itself is brilliant, but the pricing is completely stupid IMO

[DIV1D3]

Fair enough, the card is overpriced... AMD with this generation of cards is really hoping to pull in some extra dollars for 'premium' products with the Fury lineup. It should cost the same as the Fury non-X imo.

 

Agree completely... been saying this since as soon as the Fury lineup was announced, I think the lineup should have looked like this:

 

R9 390X - Fiji XT (Fury X)

R9 390 - Fiji (Fury)

R9 380X - Hawaii XT (R9 290X)

R9 380 - Hawaii (R9 290)

R9 370X - Tonga XT (R9 M295X)

R9 370 - Tonga (R9 285)

R7 360X - Pitcairn XT (R9 270/HD 7870)

R7 360 - Pitcairn (R7 265/HD 7850)

R7 350X - Bonaire XT (R7 260X)

R7 350 - Bonaire (R7 260)

Makes sense hay.... But nope! AMD decides to rebrand only half the GPUs and add another higher end tier card. 

[KarateHottie93]

OP, you are the biggest fucking Nvidia fanboy I have ever seen. That thing kills the 980. Deal with it.

[Andrew Sh]

OP, you are the biggest fucking Nvidia fanboy I have ever seen. That thing kills the 980. Deal with it.

Indeed it does. Too bad its so badly priced.

Wish it was just about $50 higher than the gtx 980, then it would wipe of off the market altogether and not be a purely 'I want to make a PC the size of a shoebox' situation because right now its simply not worth it unless the above. I assume nvidia 3rd part manufacturers will respond with a mini its gtx 980/980ti . or at least I hope so. Been a while since there was some fire between red and green!

[don_svetlio]

Indeed it does. Too bad its so badly priced.

Wish it was just about $50 higher than the gtx 980, then it would wipe of off the market altogether and not be a purely 'I want to make a PC the size of a shoebox' situation because right now its simply not worth it unless the above. I assume nvidia 3rd part manufacturers will respond with a mini its gtx 980/980ti . or at least I hope so. Been a while since there was some fire between red and green!

A mini 980 Ti? Hard. It's TDP and Power draw are the same as that of the Fury - going to be one hell of a challenge and fitting the memory on such a small PCB? Fun times

[Nena Trinity]

That card is awesome! :3

[Monkey Dust]

I guess only picking the most efficient Fury X chips for this card explain it's high price. Due to limited supply of sufficiently efficient chips they are unlikely to be able to shift huge volumes, so it makes sense to price it at a level that will bring demand somewhat in line with supply. You'd have to be really bloody sure you couldn't fit the 120mm rad in your case to chose it over the Fury X though.

[Godlygamer23]

OP, you are the biggest fucking Nvidia fanboy I have ever seen. That thing kills the 980. Deal with it.

No, it does not kill it. It beats it by a little bit at 4K, but does not kill it, especially at this price point.

[VagabondWraith]

This piece of tech is awesome. But too overpriced at this moment in time. Slash a $100 off of it and now we're talkin. I've been wanting to do a second small build for theatre/gaming but no way I'm paying as much as I did for the 980 Ti.

If this card was $500-550 I'd grab it a heartbeat.

[MEC-777]

*sigh* So many people still don't understand the Nano. Just because you don't understand where a product stands and what it was designed for, and just because it's a product that is not ideal for your setup or something you would use, personally, does not make it a "useless" or "pointless" product. It simply means it's not the ideal card for YOU. That's it. It doesn't sit along side the rest of the mainstream cards on the market and shouldn't be compared to them in the same context (as if being installed in a typical ATX system).  

 

The truth is; it is the best and fastest product for what it was designed for and right now it has no real competition. No other card on the market in this size comes close to the Nano's performance. Yeah, it's priced at a premium, and there's a reason for that. Get over it. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Want the fastest card in the smallest form factor? Pay up. It's as simple as that. 

 

The majority of the AMD hate taking place on the forums lately is completely unwarranted and from what I've seen, stems from a lack of understanding of the products and/or just plain fanboyism. Objectivity and critical thinking, be damned! apparently.  <_<