14 DAY TRIAL // At this year's major AMD event at E3, the company revealed three important family members of the R9 graphic cards based on the "Fiji" die, the R9 Fury X, the R9 Fury and the R9 Nano.
The Radeon R9 Furies were very well covered in the media, with the Fury X taking the place of honor, being the high-end model of the family. Soon after the R9, Fury AC came along and presented itself as being the most affordable of the two HBM-based Furies receiving adequate reviews, including our own.
However, few people talked about the smallest member of the "Fiji" family, the R9 Nano, which will bring the same Fury format in an even more compact form factor.
Advertised as being the highest-performing small-form-factor graphics card for mini-ITX system, the R9 Nano brings the entire arsenal of a "Fiji"-based Fury in a very compact shape. It has 4096 stream processors, 256 texture units, 64 raster operations pipelines and 4096-bit memory interface, together with the world-famous 4GB of HBM memory.
"Fiji" is what "Fiji" does
Although not officially unveiled yet, since AMD plans to launch the product in August, photos from Korean website iyd.kr show us the first models AMD sent to retailers around the world. From what we know, the design power of the graphics adapter is 175W although nothing is known about the final GPU clock-rate. It is believed it will go up to 900MHz frequency but more information will be revealed when the card is launched in a month from now.
Overall, AMD has a wide market to cover with its new "Fiji" line, and as we reviewed recently, it won't let down users who look for alternatives for their GTX 980 or even GTX 980Ti. Price-wise, the R9 Nano will probably be placed at around $450 or $500 but as no official numbers are known yet, all is but speculation.
