AMD announced their AMD Radeon R9 Nano which is, according to the press release, “the fastest Mini ITX graphics card ever1, to enable 4K gaming in the living room through ultra-quiet, ultra-compact PC designs.” We will find out !
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The AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card is based on the graphics chip codenamed “Fiji”, and is the third “Fiji”-based product to launch this summer alongside the AMD Radeon R9 Fury and R9 Fury X graphics cards.
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“With 30 percent more performance2 and 30 percent lower power3 than the previous generation AMD Radeon™ R9 290X card, the 175W AMD Radeon R9 Nano is the world’s most power efficient Mini ITX enthusiast graphics card,” according to the press release. Further they write, that “the six-inch long, air-cooled board represents a new class of graphics card, enabling gamers, PC modders, and system integrators to build compact, unique, ultra-small form factors that have never before been possible, opening the door to new, sleek PC designs that are no bigger than a home DVR or videogame console, and look every bit in place beside them.”
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“With the Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, AMD is enabling 4K class gaming in your living room in an exceptionally quiet, ultra-small design built to excel in today’s games and on the latest APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulkan. There simply is nothing else like it,” said Matt Skynner, corporate VP and general manager, Product, Computing and Graphics Business Unit at AMD. “Our Radeon graphics line-up is ushering in a new era of PC gaming delivering remarkable performance, unmatched GPU designs and groundbreaking technologies. Today is a revolutionary moment for PC gaming, and we are proud to add this distinct product to our well rounded AMD Radeon R9 graphics lineup.”
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AMD Radeon R9 Nano Graphics Card:
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Features
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- Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) – Yes
- Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC) – Yes
- High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) – Yes
- AMD FreeSyncTM Technology – Yes
- AMD LiquidVR™ Technology – Yes
- 4K Resolution Support – Yes
- AMD Eyefinity Support – Yes
- AMD CrossFire™ Support – Yes
- Specifications
- Process 28nm
- Stream Processors 4096
- Compute Units5 64
- Engine Clock Up to 1000 MHz
- Compute Performance 8.19 TFLOPS
- Texture Units 256
- Texture Fill-Rate 256 GT/s
- ROPs 64
- Pixel Fill-Rate 64 GP/s
- Z/Stencil 256
- Memory Configuration 4GB HBM
- Memory Interface 4096-bit HBM
- Memory Speed / Data Rate 500MHz / 1.0Gbps
- Memory Bandwidth 512 GB/s
- Power Connectors 1 x 8-pin
- Typical Board Power 175 W
- PCIe® Standard PCI-E 3.0
- API Support
- DirectX 12, Vulkan™, OpenGL 4.5, Mantle
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The SEP of the AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card will be $649 USD4 and is planned to be available in stores and at participating etailers the week of September 7, 2015.
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