r9 nano

[tywyllarglwydd]

Hi everybody,
 

What do you think of putting r9 nano in a normal size desktop PC? Is it worth it if it's price tag is just between 390x and 980?

[xAcid9]

The price is lower than 980? Totally worth it imo.

[SteveGrabowski0]

The Nano usually beats the 980 stock for stock at 1440p. I'd rather have the Nano than the 980 at the same price, much less for cheaper.

 

 

 

[xAcid9]

Forgot to ask, what is the rest of your spec? Need at least Haswell i5 to power this card imo.

[MMKing]

If you can keep it cooled, the Nano will outperform the R9 Fury. If not, the Nano will thermal throttle to bellow Fury performance in all of the tests when Guru3D benchmarked the two cards.

 

4k part 1: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_nano_review,28.html

4k part 2: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_nano_review,29.html

 

I would much rather get a Fury from Sapphire with a good cooler, than get a thermal throttling Nano with a sub-standard AMD cooler. And if the price is similar (relative to your budget), the 980 is not a real contender in my opinion.

[tywyllarglwydd]

I'm gonna use i7-6700k so CPU won't be bottlenecking.

Can I do something to keep it cool aprat from watercooling?

[Briggsy]

1 minute ago, tywyllarglwydd said:

I'm gonna use i7-6700k so CPU won't be bottlenecking.

Can I do something to keep it cool aprat from watercooling?

just have really good airflow. my personal favorite cases for aircooled graphic cards have 120mm side fans that are both pointed at the graphic card, like the antec eleven hundred or the corsair 300R. toss in AF120 or NF12 fans everywhere and you will get great gpu cooling.

[xAcid9]

23 minutes ago, MMKing said:

If you can keep it cooled, the Nano will outperform the R9 Fury. If not, the Nano will thermal throttle to bellow Fury performance in all of the tests when Guru3D benchmarked the two cards.

 

4k part 1: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_nano_review,28.html

4k part 2: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_nano_review,29.html

 

I would much rather get a Fury from Sapphire with a good cooler, than get a thermal throttling Nano with a sub-standard AMD cooler. And if the price is similar (relative to your budget), the 980 is not a real contender in my opinion.

I think the card is mostly TDP/Power throttle. Check the Overclocking page, simply raising the Power Limit to +50% kept the oc'ed core clock at max most of the time and still keeping the temp at 75c. Much more noisy obviously. PCPer review also show similar things.

 

 

[MMKing]

Well if the throttle issue is so easy to fix, i take back my earlier statement.

[xAcid9]

Obviously you can't overclock the Nano as much as the Fury-X because of board power limit but for $475 it's a steal imo.

[nothereanymore]

4 hours ago, MMKing said:

If you can keep it cooled, the Nano will outperform the R9 Fury. If not, the Nano will thermal throttle to bellow Fury performance in all of the tests when Guru3D benchmarked the two cards.

 

4k part 1: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_nano_review,28.html

4k part 2: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_nano_review,29.html

 

I would much rather get a Fury from Sapphire with a good cooler, than get a thermal throttling Nano with a sub-standard AMD cooler. And if the price is similar (relative to your budget), the 980 is not a real contender in my opinion.

It won't outperform the normal Fury unless you OC it a little. They are all so close any OC can match the other. Plus I got to unlock all the shaders on my Fury (lucky), and I put a 50MHz OC on it, and I am consistently beating the Fury X.

[xAcid9]

5 minutes ago, Noirgheos said:

It won't outperform the normal Fury unless you OC it a little. They are all so close any OC can match the other. Plus I got to unlock all the shaders on my Fury (lucky), and I put a 50MHz OC on it, and I am consistently beating the Fury X.

I though you sold yours and got 980 Ti or is it 290x? What happened?

[nothereanymore]

On 2/29/2016 at 9:48 AM, xAcid9 said:

I though you sold yours and got 980 Ti or is it 290x? What happened?

290X guy cancelled, tried for 980, he cancelled, said fuck it, re-installed Windows, and the issues are all but gone...