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R9 Nano Review thread

TheMorningStar said:
They did kinda make that card, it's the 390x.

It's pretty clear at this point that the HBM cards are hard to make. Maybe it's the size of the chip, given that everyone expected to be on 16nm by this point. Maybe it's the HBM which up until now has not been mass produced. Maybe it's integration with the interposer, if something goes wrong here I imagine the whole package is a writeoff. Maybe it's more than one or all of these things. It's pretty obvious AMD are doing everything they possibly can, but they are the little guy. All things considered they seem to be doing pretty well on the innovation and performance side with their GFX division, The CPUs and APUs while not great are fine for entry and mainstream markets, lets hope Zen brings some new life to at least the doorway of the enthusiast market.

It looks at least that AMD has the potential to do big things for the next gen of graphics cards if they can get all the problems ironed out with fiji production and 16nm finally hits.
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I almost said they did, its called a R390.
 
Scougar said:
When you firing it up kaap?
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It is up and running and runs really well.

For benching on stock volts all 4 cards working together can do 1140/500 and individually some of them can do 1150/500.

I am using the Red Machine at the moment to type this.:)
 
It is quite apparent that for the release of the Nano, it is pretty much a disaster and AMD have certainly shown that they are no longer "the cheap brand".

The card was released on the 10th, OcUK had 5 in of the cheaper powercolor and still one left and 2 of the dearer Asus and still have both of those left, so 4 sold. That will be a record for the least amount of cards sold at OcUK with a new GPU launch I bet and if OcUK is the same as others, I pretty much bet it is a world record for the amount of GPU sales of a new GPU launch.

WTF are they playing at?
 
High prices won't matter to start with. They will sell all of them eventually.

If there's only 10 to sell then if I was AMD id sell them for 600 too.
 
Gregster said:
It is quite apparent that for the release of the Nano, it is pretty much a disaster and AMD have certainly shown that they are no longer "the cheap brand".

The card was released on the 10th, OcUK had 5 in of the cheaper powercolor and still one left and 2 of the dearer Asus and still have both of those left, so 4 sold. That will be a record for the least amount of cards sold at OcUK with a new GPU launch I bet and if OcUK is the same as others, I pretty much bet it is a world record for the amount of GPU sales of a new GPU launch.

WTF are they playing at?
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AMDMatt and myself could have trebled that if we had had our usual 4 each.:eek:
 
tommybhoy said:
Naivety, hate or plain old fashioned thick as...

Halo product, it would be cheaper than FX if it wasn't.
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I have had good experiences with AMD but that doesn't make me want to buy the Nano and clearly it doesn't make anyone else want to either, so you claiming it as a Halo product is completely wrong.
 
I have had way, way better experiences with AMD than you but that doesn't make me want to buy the Nano.:p

If it's a choice between Nano and FX, I'd buy a Ti:p as it's the best and unless I get really bored, I always buy fastest bfb.

If I'd want to buy the smallest and fastest ,then that's the sole point of Nano, next to no one wants the smallest, hence the price parity with it's faster brother, but you still don't get it by the looks of things.:cool:
 
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tommybhoy said:
I have had way, way better experiences with AMD than you but that doesn't make me want to buy the Nano.:p

If it's a choice between Nano and FX, I'd buy a Ti:p as it's the best and unless I get really bored, I always buy fastest bfb.

If I'd want to buy the smallest and fastest ,then that's the sole point of Nano, next to no one wants the smallest, hence the price parity with it's faster brother, but you still don't get it by the looks of things.:cool:
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So it isn't a Halo product then :D
 
If it was a Halo product and the price justified by its attributes, it would be selling more than 4 in 4 days. If its not selling at that price point it is *just* overpriced, not halo.
 
And here comes another high count negative poster, you had good AMD experiences too?

No one that habits this sub would want to even contemplate going SFF even if they had with the amount of **** you all now throw at it.:D

Suddenly the 970 minis are all the rage despite no one giving a **** in the past ,where was yours and gregs passion in this 14 post thread?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18631528
 
tommybhoy said:
It's more a 'you wouldn't want to buy one'-which you wouldn't anyway:p thread vocalised to the max by the you know who type.
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Well this is a review thread and open for discussion and seeing that 4 have been sold at OcUK shows that there isn't really a market for this card at the current price point. AMD might only make 500 of them and are happy for them to sell at a snails pace and only the heads at AMD know what it what. I personally can't see me ever wanting this GPU or even the mini 970, so clearly I am not the market that this card is aimed at but I would have no hesitation in buying this if it was as fast as the FX and I was building a micro build but it isn't even close and yet costs the same as a FX.

Those who are defending it to the hilt also have no intention of buying it either, so your point is a little moot and calling it a Halo product is completely false and I would call it the opposite in fact and say AMD is cannibalizing themselves with releasing this at the current price and they could have used the chips to make more Fury Xs, which still seem to be rather sort after.
 
AMD obviously want publicity, good or bad, judging by their own efforts, so continuing the discussion seems to be more important to them than actually selling product, so I'm just trying to help them along ;)
 
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