A little graphics card with big performance
Size doesn't matter when it comes to graphics cards, hence why we've seen some powerful options for mini ITX form factor systems. And come August, AMD will release its Radeon R9 Nano, yet another option in the mini ITX sector.
AMD confirmed the August launch during an earnings call for its second quarter of fiscal of 2015, though the chip designer didn't offer up a specific date.
"Fury just launched, actually this week, and we will be launching Nano in the August timeframe," said AMD CEO Lisa Su.
The Radeon R9 Nano is another part that will take advantage of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). It will measure just six inches long, which is even shorter than the Fury X at 7.64 inches. But unlike the flagship Fury X, the R9 Nano won't require (or come with) a liquid cooling setup.
According to WCCFTech and what are purported to be leaked slides from AMD, the R9 Nano will be based on Fiji XT with twice the performance per watt and twice the performance density of AMD's prior top-end Radeon R9 290X.
Other rumored specs include 16 render backends for a total of 64 ROPs, 4,096 stream processors, and 256 texture mapping units. The GPU will be clocked around 890MHz while the and the 4GB of HBM memory will run at 500MHz on a 4,096-bit bus.
What that all translates into is a smaller and slower clocked version of Fury X that you can stuff into a mini ITX system. In fact, if the rumored specs are anywhere near accurate, the R9 Nano will easily be the fastest mini ITX graphics solution available.
There's no info yet on pricing, though as a point of reference, the Fury X launched at $649.
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