R9 Nano in pictures.

AMD has officially lifted the veil from its newest Fiji powered baby and it may surprise you as to how this card has been configured. For starters we are talking about a fully enabled Fiji core here. Nothing trimmed nothing stripped. All 4096 stream processors, all 64 ROPs….. Everything! So what makes this different from a Fury X? The Nano is designed with a 175 watts TDP and a thermal limit of 75⁰c. Once the card hits up against this barrier its starts to throttle itself down to remain within the set parameters. As for clock speeds, the Nano rated to run “up to” 1000Mhz core and 500Mhz for the HBM memory. I say “up to” 1000Ghz as the aggressive throttling will most likely keep this card from sustaining its maximum clocks, unless you have sufficient cooling to keep it humming along at a steady clip. This begs to question how this card will perform in the confines of a tiny ITX case! Not much air flow to be had in these things.

Either way, this should result in a pretty speedy card, just falling short of the R9 Fury. We will have to wait and see when the card becomes available in the coming weeks. As for price, $649 USD! Yes, you read that right. Not sure if I agree with this price point as I think AMD is missing out on a great opportunity here. Had they stayed in the $400 bracket, it would probably been a more attractive offer. At this price point, I see no reason to get this over a R9 Fury X in my opinion.

More pictures below courtesy of guru3D.