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AMD Unveils Radeon R9 Nano, Targets Mini ITX Gaming Systems With a New Fury

Posted by timothy on from the pantera's-box-you-do-not-wanna-open dept.

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.

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  1. no fiji under $500? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    are they insane??

    what does binning for low power usage mean, exactly? less performance, i suppose... and that translates somehow into "luxury product", which is just as pricey as their flagship product? i'm not getting luxury cooling, or luxury performance, but i'm still paying the luxury prices? i am essentially paying more for the silicon of an inferior performing product. what kind of reality distortion field bullshit is this??

    1. Re:no fiji under $500? by cb88 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Specifically it means it leaks less current.. especially when ran at a lower voltage.

      The Fury X and Pro chips may or may not run at the voltage these chips do and they'll probably leak more current even when they do.

      In short... this is a higher efficiency chip. Most likely it would be able to clock higher than Fury X or Pro chips due to less leakage as well given appropriate cooling.

  2. Fifteen years. by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In 2000, the fastest supercomputer in the world was IBM's ASCI White, with a peak performance of 7.226 TFLOPS. Its theoretical maximum performance was 12.3 TFLOPS. It weighed over 100 tons, and drew 3MW of power, plus another 3MW for cooling.

    One. Six. Inch. Card.

    1. Re:Fifteen years. by NJRoadfan · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Somehow this reminded me of 3dfx's old ad campaign.... all that power.... to play games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...