** AMD R9 NANO NOW IN STOCK & AVAILABLE!! **

[andybird123]

In less than a years time Nvidia will bring out Pascal with HBM2 and bring out a competitor to the Nano for the SFF market. It will still be expensive and most of you will think it's well worth the money.

If the Nano was an Nvidia product then a lot of you wouldnt bat an eyelid and keep harping on just how good it was. Because it's AMD you are all wading in with your baseball bats.

Nvidia have been selling cards at too high a price for years. Now AMD are trying (not with a great deal of success IMHO) to become a premium product retailer you all are up in arms about it.

The fact is that it is our fault that we are in this mess because we still buy these overpriced cards....myself included.

If the Nvidia SFF card is more expensive than the equivalent "980ti" type product for less performance then equally I will say that even for SFF you are better off with the "980ti" with either a waterblock or blower fan

I for one am not "up in arms", just finding it funny. Its just bizare and makes no sense, other than they've decided to give up on market share and just concentrate on making as much profit as they can per unit.

And I'm not an expert on small form factor, but are there a lot of cases that could not house a Fury X?

me either, but having only done a quick look at mITX cases, the SG05 seems to be the smallest that has a decent range of power supplies and that would take a 980ti reference... the smaller ones look like they only have 250w or 300w PSU's which I think is cutting it too close even for the nano, unless you go really low with the CPU in which case are you just setting yourself up for a bottleneck anyway?

 

[Gibbo]

I like your positive spin but the fact AMD keeps launching products that you can't buy seems very odd, obviously they "sell out" when they finally come into stock due to "latent pent up demand".

How many consumers just think "OK, I can't buy AMD I will buy Nvidia", they must be losing let's of revenue by not having product for consumers to buy!

It seems that AMD have classed the Nano a "niche" product with a price tag to match, they don't seem to be able to provide stock to the market for any of their new products.

What we need AMD to do it "produce" best bang for buck products again that you can actually buy off the shelf

You can buy, in stock now, so your statement is wrong, there are also other places in UK and Europe with stock. You very clearly can purchase this product right now off the shelf.

 

[Gibbo]

I think they have a more fundamental problem at the moment, they need to get "kit on the shelves"!

It doesn't matter how good your hardware/software is if the consumer can't buy it

They can, why are you posting such nonsense?

On the shelf at OcUK and other resellers throughout UK and Europe, consumers can buy it right now online or in store.

 

[Gregster]

True that, there is still one in stock and looking about, other e-tailers have stock albeit in very very small quantities.

 

[JediFragger]

True that, there is still one in stock and looking about, other e-tailers have stock albeit in very very small quantities.

Looks like AMD are trying to strike the balance between price and availability and doing it right (for the Fury line at least)

 

[varkanoid]

If the Nano was an Nvidia product then a lot of you wouldnt bat an eyelid and keep harping on just how good it was. Because it's AMD you are all wading in with your baseball bats.

I think your logic is impaired. When the 980 TI came out there were lots of comments in here that it was overpriced. Then when the reviews came out and peoples experiences that you could get a TitanX performance for £550 it sold in droves.

The R9 Nano has been priced in the same range as the 980TI but the performance is lower than a 980TI and there is no AMD "TitanX" to compare it with. Doesnt matter its AMD or Nvidia if it comes in same price as another card that beats it human nature to dictate its overpriced. So its not only overpriced it doesnt match a more expensive card. Therefore the only selling point is the size.

I do agree with your other comment that AMD or NVIDIA will sell at higher prices if we keep buying them but consumers will never change. Same thing is seen with +£500 monitors. You have to look at the whole picture one opinion could be NVIDIA sold the 980ti at a too high a price but it sold well. AMD saw this thought lets try the same with the Nano but its not working out because of quantity available and performance. You could say AMD were a bit silly.

 

[varkanoid]

They can, why are you posting such nonsense?

On the shelf at OcUK and other resellers throughout UK and Europe, consumers can buy it right now online or in store.

To be fair I think they mean in quantity not 3 so that AMD can have a success with the Nano. At the moment yes you can buy it from OCUK but usually we see 10+ not 2, 1......

 

[Gibbo]

True that, there is still one in stock and looking about, other e-tailers have stock albeit in very very small quantities.

Asus have landed, 2 left.

Sapphire due later or early next week, stock is available and on the shelf unlike what some are trying to suggest.

 

[Gibbo]

To be fair I think they mean in quantity not 3 so that AMD can have a success with the Nano. At the moment yes you can buy it from OCUK but usually we see 10+ not 2, 1......

Then to be fair people should post that.

It was perfectly clear what was posted, not available when it clearly is but small numbers.

Lets be factual about things.

 

[Gregster]

Asus have landed, 2 left.

Sapphire due later or early next week, stock is available and on the shelf unlike what some are trying to suggest.

Good stuff and to back you up, if I wanted to buy one today, I could.

 

[Darujhistan]

LMAO...£200 overpriced. AMD lost their freaking marbles - Fury, Fury X and now Nano such a lame release, all been such a flop.

So glad I went for 2 390's a few months ago for less money and way more FPS. Bring on the proper Pascal cards please, fed up with these wannabe launches. Although in fairness, I never expected these Nano's to be anything less than under performing, over priced and over hyped.

390 is the pick of the litter...

 

[fs123]

I still want them to be around.

But I want them to be competitive and its only the price that lets this card down (even if it is the most powerful card in this form factor).

I saw a post at another forum that was well said,

The card is so small it uses less of everything so why is it so expensive, its BOM (bill of materials) is less than the FuryX.

I agree the nano should be less than the FuryX. However, if it came in around £400 or less then I can see it competing with the Fury Pro/390X so AMD is probably going to ride it out until stock levels increase for the Fiji cards before any price movements. The would have to reduce all the linesup if one card is reduced.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

390 is the pick of the litter...

loving mine, crossfire 390's insanely powerful. Getting them under water next week as well, got 90% of my project sat here on the floor awaiting the final bits.

 

[pastymuncher]

In less than a years time Nvidia will bring out Pascal with HBM2 and bring out a competitor to the Nano for the SFF market. It will still be expensive and most of you will think it's well worth the money.

If the Nano was an Nvidia product then a lot of you wouldnt bat an eyelid and keep harping on just how good it was. Because it's AMD you are all wading in with your baseball bats.

Nvidia have been selling cards at too high a price for years. Now AMD are trying (not with a great deal of success IMHO) to become a premium product retailer you all are up in arms about it.:

Actually no. I think that the prices of gpu's from both sides are ridiculous and I am far from the only one on here that feels this way. As I said in a earlier post, the way the prices are going I will never buy a brand new gpu ever again.

 

[Kelt]

Actually no. I think that the prices of gpu's from both sides are ridiculous and I am far from the only one on here that feels this way. As I said in a earlier post, the way the prices are going I will never buy a brand new gpu ever again.

In agreement.

The last two GPU's I've bought have been from the MM.

Absurd prices for new graphics, and I probably won't ever buy new again, lottery win aside.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Got my 290 PCS+ brand new for £170 after i sold off the games it came with. The bargains come around if you wait long enough.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I do love how when Nvidia release an expensive card the 'red team' say how it's a rip off and constantly bring up price and bang-for-buck.
When AMD bring out an expensive card it's 'niche' and is fine because some people will buy it at that price.

When Nvidia release cool running, energy efficient cards the 'red team' tell us that nobody cares about cool running, energy efficient cards it's all about power. Then when AMD do it it's brilliant.

When the 970 mini was released it probably compared similarly well to the 290X as the Nano compares to the TitanX/980Ti, but nobody seemed to be starting multiple threads on that and saying how they were tempted to go ITX just to try it.

While the cooler made up the length I seem to recall that the reference 670 was a short card too and people seemed to slate that one. Everyone wanted a full sized PCB. I think some of that was down to overclocking potential. Something that is (at least presently) pretty limited on the Nano and other Fiji cards, but it doesn't seem to matter when it's an AMD card.

People complain about the same negative points being made repeatedly about stuff but are happy to keep re-iterating the same positive points. I'm sure this isn't limited to this card or this vendor either.

 

[FoxEye]

I think the problem at the moment that AMD seem to keep offering "the moon on a stick" and in reality what you get is more stick and less moon!

No, AMD delivers plenty of moon...

Spoiler

 

[Gregster]

I do love how when Nvidia release an expensive card the 'red team' say how it's a rip off and constantly bring up price and bang-for-buck.
When AMD bring out an expensive card it's 'niche' and is fine because some people will buy it at that price.

When Nvidia release cool running, energy efficient cards the 'red team' tell us that nobody cares about cool running, energy efficient cards it's all about power. Then when AD do it it's brilliant.

When the 970 mini was released it probably compared similarly well to the 290X as the Nano compares to the TitanX/980Ti, but nobody seemed to be starting multiple threads on that and saying how they were tempted to go ITX just to try it.

While the cooler made up the length I seem to recall that the reference 670 was a short card too and people seemed to slate that one. Everyone wanted a full sized PCB. I think some of that was down to overclocking potential. Something that is (at least presently) pretty limited on the Nano and other Fiji cards, but it doesn't seem to matter when it's an AMD card.

People complain about the same negative points being made repeatedly about stuff but are happy to keep re-iterating the same positive points. I'm sure this isn't limited to this card or this vendor either.

Very true and goes both ways, for some weird reason people find solace in digging at the opposition and this happens from both sides of the fence. I usually try to remain constructive in my criticism and I do the same for both camps (albeit probably less at Nvidia).

 

[humbug]

Amazed, nearly sold out.

Fact is AMD need to make money, so if these cost them £100 to make and they can flog them for £600, then they need to do it and keep doing it. End of the day it offers good performance, OK the value for money is not great but there is no card this tiny this powerful, so they do have a USP and to be frank can charge what they like if supply is slow.

Fury X absolutely flies out, whenever stock lands, it tends to sell within a days.


None of us are happy with the prices or lack of stock, but if AMD can shift all their product at these prices then good on them, I for one want them to be still here in years to come because they keep NVIDIA on their toes.

Its unfortunate but AMD have tried the (Value for money) card and still they lose market share, and its not doing them any good selling low volume at low margins.

If you can't sell high volume at high margins you have two options.
You can either sell high volume at low margins or low volume at high margins, AMD can only sell in low volumes so they dont have a choice, it must be high margins.