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as single card graphics solutions become more and more powerful we're seeing many

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builders ditching the bulky full and mid-tower cases with multi-GPU setups in

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favor of smaller systems that still pack a powerful punch but with most top-tier

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graphics cards having sometimes ludicrous space requirements and

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generating lots and lots of heat fitting them into something like an itx chassis

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can be a challenge with that in mind AMD delivered upon this world the Radeon r9

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nano a small form factor graphics card that promises performance on par with

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full-size flagship Radeon cards but can

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team red deliver and give us a truly first-class gaming experience in such a

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tiny little package stay tuned to find out and like this video if you want us

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to do more theoretical graphics card comparison videos in the future

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very vague i know

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the mastercase 5 by cooler master gives you the freedom to truly make your

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mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories

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check out the link in the video description to learn more

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despite the official name of just Radeon r9 nano the nano is part of the r9 fury

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series of graphics cards from AMD which also includes the r9 fury the top end

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water cooled r9 fury x and despite the nano being much smaller and less bulky

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than the fury x it shares the same GPU with 4096 stream processors and 64

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compute units the only difference being that the nano has a peak clock speed out

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of the box of 1 000 megahertz which is 50 less than the fury x the nano also

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has the same memory configuration as the fury x with 4 gigabytes of high

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bandwidth memory aka hbm running at 500

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megahertz on a 512 Gigabyte per second memory bus however where the nano sets

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itself apart is its cooling and power delivery systems unlike some other

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reference design cards from AMD we've seen the nano has its heatsink fins

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oriented horizontally along the card instead of radially out of the card

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you'd see a radial design set up very often on Intel stock CPU coolers and

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they did this they moved to horizontal to minimize obstructions and make the

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cooler function more similarly into a blower style solution AMD is targeting a

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temperature of 75 degrees celsius while gaming with this card throttling at 85

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degrees celsius the nano is also a lot less power hungry

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peak board power is rated at 175 watts

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compared to the 275 watt draw of the fury and fury x

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the improved cooling and reduced power consumption combined with the

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space-saving benefits of hbm which is physically integrated into the GPU

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package means that AMD was able to make the nano pcb only six inches long so the

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card only extends as far as the end of your pci express slot on your

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motherboard do keep in mind though if you're interested in dropping the nano

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into your ultra small system that the power connector alone 8 pin PCIe input

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is oriented on the side of the card not on the top meaning you'll have to factor

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in some extra length there for your plug coming off of your power

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supply with that said let's have a closer look at the card itself starting

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on the front you'd see a matte black metal shroud that looks quite similar to

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what we saw on the fury x except of course that the nano is an air-cooled

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card so there's a single 90 millimeter fan on the front to cool everything down

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do note that if you pick up a reference nano the heatsink and fan are actually

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integrated into the shroud and therefore are not easily removable should you be

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interested in modding the card the heatsink itself features the

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aforementioned horizontal fins and no heat pipes which AMD decided to omit to

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keep the weight and bulkiness of the card to a minimum while still keeping

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the cooling good the back of the pcb is bare though it does have a matte black

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finish for a clean look moving on to the top we see a fairly understated design

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with the Radeon logo and only a small part of the heatsink peeking through the

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black shroud and then the side of the card is open to allow case fans to help

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move air across the heat sink and also includes that lone 8 pin PCIe power

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connector we mentioned earlier on the back we see one HDMI and three display

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outputs note that this doesn't have any dvi outs and we didn't see any adapters

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in the box so make sure you pick one up if you'll be using dvi with this card

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now on to performance we used a fairly standard test suite of tomb raider

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crisis 3 far cry 4 and the witcher 3 for our standard performance benchmarks then

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we just added on fire strike ultra which was a little aggressive but interesting

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regardless then we did our standard skybox testing in crisis 3 to test heavy

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load temperature and system wattage from the wall one very important factor to

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remember when looking at these numbers is the size of the nano yeah sure it's

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trading blows of the gtx 980 and it's being beaten by the fury both of which

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are cheaper but this thing is absolutely tiny in terms of size while the 980 and

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fury are both center of attention case monsters this shows in power draw as

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well the only card that beats the nano in terms of power draw that we tested is

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the now old 285 compact from sapphire

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which to be fair is in a much lower tier performance which shows very well when

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looking at the graph comparison of system wattage per frame

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even though the nano has a little bit more power draw than the 285 compact its

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system watch per frame is under half which is pretty great

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this leaves us with a card that when compared to a 390x strix edition

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performs better runs cooler and draws significantly less power from the wall

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all while being much smaller but at an increased price of 200

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which brings us to our last question price yes okay you got me it's not

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exactly a cheap card at 650 it's got a

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price tag to it it's dollars per frame is not really that grace or price per

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performance is not really that great but i honestly don't think that's the reason

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why someone would be interested in this card the card isn't trying to be the

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best price performance card on the market it's trying to be a badass in

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terms of power consumption and performance while containing itself in a

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small package and that honestly

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basically was my conclusion the nano is small the nano is fast and the nano

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draws an impressively low amount of wattage from the wall it does all of

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this while yes being a little expensive but not to an impossible degree and i

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could see a lot of small form factor builders looking in this direction soon

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especially with the number of case manufacturers coming out with smaller

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and smaller cases every year with some very interesting ones on the horizon

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