Review: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

By Dave James

Introduction and features

AMD’s latest graphics card represents a bit of a departure for the big red Texan GPU manufacturer – the R9 Nano is a luxury GPU packing impressive gaming performance into a tiny package.

Which is both fascinating from an engineering standpoint and rather puzzling by pretty much every other metric.

The new Radeon R9 Nano is the little brother to the existing AMD Radeon R9 Fury cards – in water-cooled ‘X’ and air-cooled standard models – and deserves that distinction in more ways than one. This diminutive graphics card takes the beefy AMD Fiji GPU and squeezes it into the smallest graphics card footprint we’ve seen in a long time.

• 5 ways AMD’s powerful R9 Nano makes tiny gaming PCs exciting

The R9 Nano is aiming to be the ultimate small form factor graphics card, which is able to run in the most microscopic of mini-ITX chassis without overheating to the point where it leaks out the fan grates as so much molten silicon.

The R9 Fury and R9 Fury X cards are bona fide, top-end graphics cards with hefty cooling solutions on them to keep the …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac