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R9 Nano Review thread

Looking at those 1080p benchmarks in the OP, you would really have to think hard about whether the Nano was worth nearly £300 more than the 970mini if you gamed at 1080p wouldnt you! It's a lot closer than i thought. Looks like you get about ~20% on average more performance.
 
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Jono8 said:
Looking at those 1080p benchmarks in the OP, you would really have to think hard about whether the Nano was worth nearly £300 more than the 970mini if you gamed at 1080p wouldnt you! It's a lot closer than i thought. Looks like you get about ~20% on average more performance.
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To be honest though, if anyone was gaming at 1080p, they REALLY shouldn't be getting the Fury (and ironic thing if anyone was planning on gaming on 4K on TV, they shouldn't be getting the Fury either...).

I honestly think that with everything considered, the 390 8GB is really the best rounder performance and price card that AMD has to offer.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
To be honest though, if anyone was gaming at 1080p, they REALLY shouldn't be getting the Fury (and ironic thing if anyone was planning on gaming on 4K on TV, they shouldn't be getting the Fury either...).
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Exactly. I just don't think there is a market that the Nano fits in. Except for the "i am going to intentionally hobble myself by buying one of the few SFF cases that doesnt fit a 980Ti so i can buy the significantly worse performing Nano" market.
 
Its not really fair to compare the card to a 980Ti as that's not really its direct competitor. The only reason people are comparing it to a Ti is because of the insane pricing.
 
Jono8 said:
It is a direct competitor in all situations apart from when you buy the smallest case possible in length.
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So the mini-ITX GTX970 cards are a direct competitor to other GTX970 cards which are faster,can be overclocked more,are cooler running and run quieter?? :p

This one is cheaper than any of the mini-ITX ones and has a blower cooler too:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-013-PL&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1010

So,the mini-ITX GTX970 is now pointless since cases will take that Palit GTX970.

:p

Anyway back to the WAR for all of you.

I obviously lack the will to fit on and don't have the tenacity and MACHO E-PEEN of many of you to continue the fight.
 
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Jono8 said:
It is a direct competitor in all situations apart from when you buy the smallest case possible in length.
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"It's a direct competitor except when the nano is being used for what it was made for"

I guess a jet is a direct competitor to a small winged aircraft because they both fly places right?

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Jono8 said:
It is a direct competitor in all situations apart from when you buy the smallest case possible in length.
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Yet that is its intended market, small cases. Fitting very good GPU performance in a small case. In that respect, if you ignore the pricing, its a great card.

Granted a lot of people will just get a bigger case and a different card but its hard to deny at the size the Nano is that its decent.
 
Meladath said:
"It's a direct competitor except when the nano is being used for what it was made for"

I guess a jet is a direct competitor to a small winged aircraft because they both fly places right?

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Is the small winged aircraft the same price as the jet though? ;)
 
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Lol.
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Every titan too, except AMD HAS to charge around this amount to make cash back (if the prices of their other GPU's are anything to go by anyway) nvidia just slaps a "because I can" tax on the titans and still buy those.

Not saying the nano isn't bad value for money, because it is, but its much better value than the titan given its size, power usage and temps. Still funny to see the same people who use the "well you have to pay to get the best!" excuse for a titan but are laughing at the nano right now! the hypocrisy :D:D:D
 
Meladath said:
Every titan too, except AMD HAS to charge around this amount to make cash back (if the prices of their other GPU's are anything to go by anyway) nvidia just slaps a "because I can" tax on the titans and still buy those.

Not saying the nano isn't bad value for money, because it is, but its much better value than the titan given its size, power usage and temps. Still funny to see the same people who use the "well you have to pay to get the best!" excuse for a titan but are laughing at the nano right now! the hypocrisy :D:D:D
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I think most on here, including myself, think the Titan is hilariously priced as well.
 
I do think that the Fury X/Nano has served a very interested purpose though- it has showcased us that with HBM, graphic cards can become much smaller in size...so may be from next gen onward, most of the flagship cards we get can may be use for tiny high-end gaming PC build? :cool:
 
Marine-RX179 said:
I do think that the Fury X/Nano has served a very interested purpose though- it has showcased us that with HBM, graphic cards can become much smaller in size...so may be from next gen onward, most of the flagship cards we get can may be use for tiny high-end gaming PC build? :cool:
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I believe the reference 670 cards and 760 cards, as well as the 970-mini, have already proved that they can become smaller in size.
Still it's nice of AMD to show us this again a few years later, in case we'd forgotten.

Out of interest, which cases are big enough to fit the Nano but not big enough to fit a 980Ti?


It is quite funny that a lot of the Red Team that would criticise Nvidia pricing in the past are now defending AMD pricing. Titan was niche, Nano is niche, but apparently it's only OK for the Nano to be expensive because of this.

AMD don't include HDMI 2.0 on their cards and so will force people requiring HDMI 2.0 to buy an additional adaptor. When AMD do it it's a good thing that they're working around a problem of their own making. If Nvidia did this it would be short-sighted and another way to get money out of their loyalty-blind customers.

Nvidia release power efficient, cool running cards with the 900 series, Red Team complains nobody wants power efficient cool running gaming cards, it's all about power. AMD do it and it's moving things forward and showing us what can be done and the way all gaming cards will go to hell with the fact that the cards may throttle.

The Nvidia 970-mini was probably the most powerful card in it's form factor at the time. Very few ****s were given. AMD release the Nano and the hype train is huge. All of a sudden people care about SFF. Although everyone is saying about building a SFF system, not adding the Nano into their existing one, so apparently they didn't care that much about SFF when the 970-mini was released?
 
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