as single card graphics solutions become more and more powerful we're seeing many
builders ditching the bulky full and mid-tower cases with multi-GPU setups in
favor of smaller systems that still pack a powerful punch but with most top-tier
graphics cards having sometimes ludicrous space requirements and
generating lots and lots of heat fitting them into something like an itx chassis
can be a challenge with that in mind AMD delivered upon this world the Radeon r9
nano a small form factor graphics card that promises performance on par with
full-size flagship Radeon cards but can
team red deliver and give us a truly first-class gaming experience in such a
tiny little package stay tuned to find out and like this video if you want us
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despite the official name of just Radeon r9 nano the nano is part of the r9 fury
series of graphics cards from AMD which also includes the r9 fury the top end
water cooled r9 fury x and despite the nano being much smaller and less bulky
than the fury x it shares the same GPU with 4096 stream processors and 64
compute units the only difference being that the nano has a peak clock speed out
of the box of 1 000 megahertz which is 50 less than the fury x the nano also
has the same memory configuration as the fury x with 4 gigabytes of high
bandwidth memory aka hbm running at 500
megahertz on a 512 Gigabyte per second memory bus however where the nano sets
itself apart is its cooling and power delivery systems unlike some other
reference design cards from AMD we've seen the nano has its heatsink fins
oriented horizontally along the card instead of radially out of the card
you'd see a radial design set up very often on Intel stock CPU coolers and
they did this they moved to horizontal to minimize obstructions and make the
cooler function more similarly into a blower style solution AMD is targeting a
temperature of 75 degrees celsius while gaming with this card throttling at 85
degrees celsius the nano is also a lot less power hungry
peak board power is rated at 175 watts
compared to the 275 watt draw of the fury and fury x
the improved cooling and reduced power consumption combined with the
space-saving benefits of hbm which is physically integrated into the GPU
package means that AMD was able to make the nano pcb only six inches long so the
card only extends as far as the end of your pci express slot on your
motherboard do keep in mind though if you're interested in dropping the nano
into your ultra small system that the power connector alone 8 pin PCIe input
is oriented on the side of the card not on the top meaning you'll have to factor
in some extra length there for your plug coming off of your power
supply with that said let's have a closer look at the card itself starting
on the front you'd see a matte black metal shroud that looks quite similar to
what we saw on the fury x except of course that the nano is an air-cooled
card so there's a single 90 millimeter fan on the front to cool everything down
do note that if you pick up a reference nano the heatsink and fan are actually
integrated into the shroud and therefore are not easily removable should you be
interested in modding the card the heatsink itself features the
aforementioned horizontal fins and no heat pipes which AMD decided to omit to
keep the weight and bulkiness of the card to a minimum while still keeping
the cooling good the back of the pcb is bare though it does have a matte black
finish for a clean look moving on to the top we see a fairly understated design
with the Radeon logo and only a small part of the heatsink peeking through the
black shroud and then the side of the card is open to allow case fans to help
move air across the heat sink and also includes that lone 8 pin PCIe power
connector we mentioned earlier on the back we see one HDMI and three display
outputs note that this doesn't have any dvi outs and we didn't see any adapters
in the box so make sure you pick one up if you'll be using dvi with this card
now on to performance we used a fairly standard test suite of tomb raider
crisis 3 far cry 4 and the witcher 3 for our standard performance benchmarks then
we just added on fire strike ultra which was a little aggressive but interesting
regardless then we did our standard skybox testing in crisis 3 to test heavy
load temperature and system wattage from the wall one very important factor to
remember when looking at these numbers is the size of the nano yeah sure it's
trading blows of the gtx 980 and it's being beaten by the fury both of which
are cheaper but this thing is absolutely tiny in terms of size while the 980 and
fury are both center of attention case monsters this shows in power draw as
well the only card that beats the nano in terms of power draw that we tested is
the now old 285 compact from sapphire
which to be fair is in a much lower tier performance which shows very well when
looking at the graph comparison of system wattage per frame
even though the nano has a little bit more power draw than the 285 compact its
system watch per frame is under half which is pretty great
this leaves us with a card that when compared to a 390x strix edition
performs better runs cooler and draws significantly less power from the wall
all while being much smaller but at an increased price of 200
which brings us to our last question price yes okay you got me it's not
exactly a cheap card at 650 it's got a
price tag to it it's dollars per frame is not really that grace or price per
performance is not really that great but i honestly don't think that's the reason
why someone would be interested in this card the card isn't trying to be the
best price performance card on the market it's trying to be a badass in
terms of power consumption and performance while containing itself in a
small package and that honestly
basically was my conclusion the nano is small the nano is fast and the nano
draws an impressively low amount of wattage from the wall it does all of
this while yes being a little expensive but not to an impossible degree and i
could see a lot of small form factor builders looking in this direction soon
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