AMD's upcoming pocket rocket the Radeon R9 Nano has been pictured once more with retail availability said to be coming soon. The AMD Radeon R9 Nano is the first reference designed high-end mini-itx graphics card of its kind. With performance promised to be "significantly" greater than that of the company's previous flagship, the Radeon R9 290X, the six inch long R9 Nano packs a very impressive punch that rivals even the Titan X in pure compute grunt.



Just yesterday we spotted three brand new pictures of the card being teased by none other than Anthony Lackey who goes by the nickname Elmy. We've seen Lackey build extraordinary AMD systems before and now he's working on his next project with the R9 Nano.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano Pictured, Coming To Retailers Soon

Anthony Lackey :

Coming soon to a retailer near you.....

Doing a project for AMD will have details next week.







Three weeks ago - during its 2015 Q2 earnings call - AMD announced that the Radeon R9 Nano will be launching this month.

"Fury just launched, actually this week, and we will be launching Nano in the August timeframe." Said AMD's president and CEO Lisa Su at the 2015 Q2 earnings call.

The R9 Nano is the company's third enthusiast graphics card based on the Fiji GPU featuring 3D high bandwidth memory, or HBM for short and the company's very first reference designed air cooled Fiji based graphics card.



The R9 Nano purportedly features - although not yet confirmed by AMD - a full fat Fiji XT chip with all resources unlocked, much like the R9 Fury X. However, the differentiator will be the clock speed, which will be much more conservative than the 1050mhz frequency that the company's R9 Fury X flagship boasts. And this is what's going to help the R9 Nano deliver its impressive performance and power efficiency figures.

WCCFTech Radeon R9 Fury X Radeon R9 Nano Radeon R9 Fury Radeon R9 290X GPU Fiji XT Fiji 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 1000 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/s 512GB/s 512GB/s 320GB/s Cooling Liquid, 120mm Radiator Air, Single Axial Fan Air, Custom AIB Solutions Air, Single Blower Fan Performance (SPFP) 8.6 TFLOPS 8.19 TFLOPS 7.2 TFLOPS 5.6 TFLOPS TDP 275W 175W 275W 250W Power Connectors Dual 8-Pin 8-Pin Dual 8-Pin 6+8 Pin GFLOPS/Watt 31.3 42 26.2 22.4 Launch Price $649 $649 $549 $549 Launch Date June 24 2015 September 2015 July 10 2015 October 24 2013

AMD Radeon R9 Nano Has The Makings Of The Most Powerful Mini-ITX Graphics Card

Based on AMD’s largest, most powerful and latest GPU code named “Fiji”, this tiny card boasts some seriously impressive stats. 2X the performance per watt and 2X the performance density of AMD’s previous flagship, the R9 290X. The result is a six 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 most powerful mini-itx graphics card we have seen so far.







Interestingly, Tom's Hardware managed to improve the power efficiency of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X by 50% just by reducing the power limit of the card. Surprisingly the only tradeoff was a 10% reduction in the average frames per second. Average FPS dropped from 39.7 to 36 while power consumption dropped by nearly 100W from 267W to 170W. That's 5W below the typical board power for the R9 Nano, so realistically speaking it should prove to be quite easy for AMD to deliver on its R9 Nano promises.

it's quite clear that AMD's Fiji GPU and the GCN architecture in general was designed to run at slightly lower frequencies and as a result would gain a massive chunk of power efficiency through the slightest clock speed reductions. We really can't wait to see what this little card can do. More information is bound to trickle in as we get closer to launch so stay tuned.