AMD Confirms Radeon R9 Nano Launching In August - Most Powerful Mini-ITX Graphics Card Yet

AMD has just confirmed during its 2022 Q2 earnings call that the Radeon R9 Nano is launching in August.

"Fury but launched, actually this week, and nosotros will be launching Nano in the August timeframe." Said AMD'south president and CEO Lisa Su at the 2022 Q2 earnings call.

This is the company's third enthusiast graphics card based on the Fiji GPU featuring 3D loftier bandwidth memory, or HBM for brusk and the company's very outset reference designed mini-itx form factor enthusiast graphics bill of fare.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4
The R9 Nano purportedly features - although not yet confirmed by AMD - a full fatty Fiji XT chip with all resources unlocked, much like the R9 Fury X. However, the differentiator volition be the clock speed, which volition be much more than conservative than the 1050mhz frequency that the company'southward R9 Fury 10 flagship boasts. And this is what'due south going to aid the R9 Nano evangelize its impressive operation and power efficiency figures.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano Has The Makings Of The Almost Powerful Mini-ITX Graphics Carte

Based on AMD'south largest, most powerful and latest GPU code named "Republic of the fiji islands", this tiny card boasts some seriously impressive stats. 2X the performance per watt and 2X the performance density of AMD'southward previous flagship, the R9 290X. The event is a 6 inch long, 175W graphics card that we're told is "significantly faster" than the 290X. Combine all of those attributes and the R9 Nano has the makings of the the most powerful mini-itx graphics bill of fare we have seen so far.

Allow's briefly hash out the technology that enables these radical power savings and size reduction. Stacked high bandwidth retentiveness represents the revolutionary pace that has been so badly needed in the evolution of graphics retention standards. The commencement generation of HBM delivers 300% the bandwidth per watt of GDDR5 retentiveness and reduces the overall lath area defended to memory by a whopping 94% compared to GDDR5.

The 2d generation of HBM promises to double the bandwidth by doubling the effective speed of the DRAM information cells from 1Gbps to 2Gbps. While likewise quadrupling the memory capacity for 4-Hi stacks from 1GB to 4GB and enabling 8-Hello stacks with a whopping 8GB of full memory. AMD has confirmed that HBM2 volition be used in the company's upcoming FinFET based GPUs in 2022 which are based on the purportedly code named Arctic Islands graphics compages flagshipped by the "Greenland" GPU.

The R9 Nano is set feature sixteen render back-ends for a full of 64 ROPs also every bit 256 texture mapping units. Having fully unlocked Fiji XT silicon as the basis of the card translates to a total of 64 GCN units housing 4096 stream processors. AMD'southward yet to release the full specifications for the card, however nosotros do have reason believe that AMD volition equip the R9 Nano with a Fiji XT GPU, rather than Fiji Pro.

Interestingly, Tom's Hardware managed to improve the power efficiency of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X past l% just by reducing the power limit of the card. Surprisingly the only tradeoff was a ten% reduction in the boilerplate frames per 2d. Average FPS dropped from 39.7 to 36 while power consumption dropped by most 100W from 267W to 170W. That'south 5W below the typical board power for the R9 Nano, so realistically speaking it should testify to be quite easy for AMD to evangelize on its R9 Nano promises.
it'south quite clear that AMD's Fiji GPU and the GCN architecture in general was designed to run at slightly lower frequencies and every bit a outcome would proceeds a massive clamper of power efficiency through the slightest clock speed reductions. We really can't look to encounter what this little carte can do. More information is spring to trickle in as we get closer to launch so stay tuned.

WCCFTech	Radeon R9 Fury Ten	Radeon R9 Nano	Radeon R9 Fury	Radeon R9 290X
GPU	Fiji XT	Republic of the fiji islands XT	Fiji Pro	Hawaii XT
Stream Processors	4096	4096	3584	2816
GCN Compute Units	64	64	56	44
Render Output Units	64	64	64	64
Texture Mapping Units	256	256	224	176
GPU Frequency	1050Mhz	1000MHz	yard MHz	1000Mhz
Memory	4GB HBM	4GB HBM	4GB HBM	4GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	4096bit	4096bit	4096bit	512bit
Memory Frequency	500Mhz	500Mhz	500Mhz	1250Mhz
Effective Memory Speed	1Gbps	1Gbps	1Gbps	5Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	512GB/southward	512GB/s	512GB/s	320GB/s
Cooling	Liquid, 120mm Radiator	Air, Single Axial Fan	Air, Custom AIB Solutions	Air, Single Blower Fan
Operation (SPFP)	8.six TFLOPS	8.19 TFLOPS	seven.2 TFLOPS	5.6 TFLOPS
TDP	275W	175W	275W	250W
Power Connectors	Dual 8-Pin	8-Pin	Dual viii-Pin	6+8 Pivot
GFLOPS/Watt	31.3	42	26.2	22.four
Launch Price	$649	$649	$549	$549
Launch Date	June 24 2022	September 2022	July 10 2022	October 24 2022