AMD has just confirmed during its 2015 Q2 earnings call that the Radeon R9 Nano is launching in August.
“Fury just launched, actually this week, and we will be launching Nano in the August timeframe.” Said AMD’s president and CEO Lisa Su at the 2015 Q2 earnings call.
This is the company’s third enthusiast graphics card based on the Fiji GPU featuring 3D high bandwidth memory, or HBM for short and the company’s very first reference designed mini-itx form factor enthusiast graphics card.
The R9 Nano purportedly features – although not yet confirmed by AMD – a full fat Fiji XT chip with all resources unlocked, much like the R9 Fury X. However, the differentiator will be the clock speed, which will be much more conservative than the 1050mhz frequency that the company’s R9 Fury X flagship boasts. And this is what’s going to help the R9 Nano deliver its impressive performance and power efficiency figures.
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Has The Makings Of The Most Powerful Mini-ITX Graphics Card
Based on AMD’s largest, most powerful and latest GPU code named “Fiji”, this tiny card boasts some seriously impressive stats. 2X the performance per watt and 2X the performance density of AMD’s previous flagship, the R9 290X. The result is a six inch long, 175W graphics card that we’re told is “significantly faster” than the 290X. Combine all of those attributes and the R9 Nano has the makings of the the most powerful mini-itx graphics card we have seen so far.
