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we have made a ton of videos featuring The R9 Nano from AMD there was the

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review that kicked it off that showed a badass little card that produced a

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massive amount of performance for its size without this card I wouldn't have

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been able to do my Fallout 4 bomb build and it was the ideal GPU for Linus' 7

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Gamers 1 CPU build but we have received criticism here from people saying that

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the Nano only really works in ideal thermal situations and that the 970 mini

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from the other team is the real small form Factor King due to that problem is

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there any weight to this argument let's

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see Intel brings ddr4 to the mainstream

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with their new core i76700 K and core i56600k processors check out the link in

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the video description to learn more first let's introduce the competitors

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starting with the AMD R9 Nano it features a Fiji core GPU with 4,096

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stream processors and 4 GB of hbm or

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high bandwidth memory running at 1 gbit per freaking second on a memory bus

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width of 4,096 bits the whole thing has

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a GPU boosts clock of 1,000 MHz and houses all of this within a 5 in x 4 and

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38 in body which has done super well in

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raw performance benchmarks in the past in the other Corner we have the ASUS 970

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mini running a total of 1664 cacor and 4

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gbt of gddr5 memory which is running at

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7,10 MHz on a 256bit memory interface

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the whole thing has a GPU boost clock of 1228 MHz and comfortably sits within a

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frame that is 7.7 in by 4.8 in which has

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also done super well in benchmarks in the past but more on the thermal and

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price to Performance side of things looking back at the review of the Nano

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we can see the differences clearly laid out in the benchmarking graphs the Nano

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handily beats the 970 mini in everything

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when looking at Raw performance when you break away from that and look at overall

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wattage or thermal output the story changes and the 970 beats the Nano quite

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easily as well and then finally they do

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end up tying but in the performance per watt category the cards also have quite

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the price Delta with in US funds the Nano coming at

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$479 while the mini sits at a much more

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digestible 299 and this shows in the dollars per

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frame Benchmark where the Nano was literally the most expensive per frame

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card we tested and the mini was literally the least expensive per frame

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card we tested quite the polarization all of that being said those benchmarks

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are a little bit dated and so far what we know is that if you want a faster and

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smaller card you can grab the Nano and pay up about an extra 180 bucks but if

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you can deal with the slightly bigger size don't mind a bit of performance

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loss and want to save some pennies on your power bill you canot spend the

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extra and go for the mini options are good and these two cards serve the small

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form factor market quite well in their own ways and nicely complement each

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other in a way that I personally think Fosters healthy competition instead of

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blind fanboying which is pretty cool but

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today we look at them again for one more

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testing scenario I had issues with the Nano's performance in my Fallout bomb

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and it took a lot for me to mostly fix

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it most cases have adequate air flow for your GPU but not all of them the ones

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that have very restricted GPU airflow that we have apparently left at Linus's

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house for uh undisclosed reasons so what

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we did to replace the cases that are apparently at Linus's house is we

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grabbed the node 202 a solid small form

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factor case from fractal if you want to see the review of that check up here and

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then in order to restrict the air flow more because this can actually take a

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full-size graphics card we grabbed a fractal modu vent from a Define R5 that

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we had lying around and then just taped it to the side we then tested Crisis 3

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Tomb Raider and Battlefront both with the cover on and with the cover off with

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both cards upon initial investigation of

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the raw average numbers the Nano does

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throttle when the obstruction is introduced but not by enough and it

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still kind of wins by significant amount in every single scenario but that

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definitely is not the whole story the average FPS doesn't lie but it's also

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not an accurate description of how it felt the mini didn't give a crap it got

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a little warmer but performed exactly the same in all three games with or

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without the obstruction the Nano throttled and throttled pretty hard

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making the games feel sluggish and weird due to inconsistent clock speeds as the

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card was fluctuating clock speeds throughout the test as it throttled and

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then no longer throttled and Etc okay so

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that's not great for the Nano but I don't necessarily think that this is

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actually a big deal before you scream at

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me allow me to explain we had to create this scenario this is a bad airflow

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scenario that being said there are cases that will have highly restricted air

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flow for your GPU but this just arms you with more information for the planning

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phase of your build if you have an extremely airflow restricted scenario

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either find a way to feed the Nano some more air or just take a step down to the

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mini which can still handle it and be a

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