AMD just released more details on their latest Nano item. This tiny video card will be great for those who are looking to build a Steam machine for the living room or simply looking for the smallest card they can put in their machine.
How Small Is It? How Fast Is It?
Tiny would describe it, as it is 40% smaller than a Radeon 290x board. It’s simply a 6” PCB that’s barely longer then the PCIe bus it’s plugged into. Plus it’s 30% faster than a 290x card and features the same 4096 Stream processors as its bigger brother. It can actually maintain this power and performance while operating 20 degrees cooler and running at a target temp of 75 degrees Centigrade. It also uses 30% less power than a 290x. It only needs one 8 pin connection. Having one fan also means its running a lot quieter at around 42dBA.
Ports and Polish
The Nano will feature similar design to the Fury with its brushed aluminum finish and a matte black PCB along with its Metal shroud. It will have 3 Display ports and 1 HDMI.
Performance
AMD is showing off its specs, and it looks like they have targeted the 970 audience with this card. The R9 Nano performs an average of 30% faster compared to its mITX 970 rival. We might also expect it to squeeze a little more juice when DirectX 12 games hit the market.
Here’s the Full rundown of specs:
- Process: 28nm
- Stream Processors: 4096
- 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
- Memory Speed /Data Rate; 500MHz / 1.0 Gbps
- Memory Bandwidth: Up to 512 GB/s
- Power Connectors: 1×8-pin
- Typical Board Power: 175W
- PCIe® Standard: PCIe® 3.0
- API Support: DirectX® 12 Vulkan™
- FreeSync™ Support: Yes
- Virtual Super Resolution: Yes
- Frame Rate Target Control: Yes
Having a tiny powerful video card might start a revolution of tiny systems again. While the R9 Nano is not yet available, expect to see it soon.
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