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AMD Unveils Radeon R9 Nano, Targets Mini ITX Gaming Systems With a New Fury
MojoKid writes: AMD today added a third card to its new Fury line that's arguably the most intriguing of the bunch, the Radeon R9 Nano. True to its name, the Nano is a very compact card, though don't be fooled by its diminutive stature. Lurking inside this 6-inch graphics card is a Fiji GPU core built on a 28nm manufacturing process paired with 4GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). It's a full 1.5 inches shorter than the standard Fury X, and unlike its liquid cooled sibling, there's no radiator and fan assembly to mount. The Fury Nano sports 64 compute units with 64 stream processors each for a total of 4,096 stream processors, just like Fury X. It also has an engine clock of up to 1,000MHz and pushes 8.19 TFLOPs of compute performance. That's within striking distance of the Fury X, which features a 1,050MHz engine clock at 8.6 TFLOPs. Ars Technica, too, takes a look at the new Nano.
Wrong. That's 7.226 TFlops of DOUBLE PRECISION performance on the supercomputers.
Even the full-bore Furry-X gets about 0.55 TFlops of double precision and let's optimistically assume that these cut-down parts can still pull 0.5 TFlops. That's 14.452 (round up to 15) cards.
Now, Knight's Landing? That's about 3 TFlops of double-precision in a single chip, so three CHIPS to beat that supercomputer.. not too shabby.
Still pretty impressive, but that's just proof that despite the naysayers, Moore's law is alive and well.