AMD R9 Nano (Photo : YouTube)
AMD recently announced the official specs, pricing and release date of its latest video card, the AMD R9 Nano.
According to PC Gamer, the new AMD R9 Nano will be released on Sept. 10 and will fetch the same price tag of $650, just like the AMD R9 Fury X which was released in June.
A closer look at the R9 Nano's specs sheet will reveal that the video card has an almost identical specs as the R9 Fury X. The only glaring difference is in the cards physical dimension. The R9 Nano is significantly smaller compared to the Fury X.
Aside from being smaller compared to the Fury X, the R9 Nano also has a lower thermal design power rated at 175 watts. The Nano's official specs sheet shows that the video card has 64 compute units, 256 texture unites, 4096 stream processors and four gigabytes of high bandwidth memory.
In terms of clock speed, there is only a minor difference between the R9 Nano and the Fury X. The R9 Nano's base clock speed is rated at 1,000 MHz while the Fury X has a slightly faster clock speed rated at 1,050 MHz. Industry analysts claim that the R9 Nano has a slightly lower clock speed because the video card also has a lower power consumption requirement.
AMD corporate and general manager Matt Skynner posted on AMD's official website, "With the Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, AMD is enabling 4K class gaming in your living room in an exceptionally quiet, ultra-small design built to excel in today's games and on the latest API's like Direct X12 and Vulkan."
