Specifications of compact AMD R9 Nano card appear online

Just like the R9 Fury X, the Radeon R9 Nano has 4096 stream processors, but at a TDP that is 100W lower. The core clock speed runs at ‘up to 1000MHz’. This is evident from the official slides that have appeared on the internet. The card would appear on Thursday.

In mid-June AMD announced the Radeon R9 Nano: a remarkably compact card with hbm. AMD did not provide details about the card at the time, but Videocardz is now publishing it, reportedly a day before the official arrival of the Nano. With its length of 152 mm, the card is mainly intended for compact game systems.

The R9 Nano has the same GPU as the Radeon Fury X, with 4096 stream processors, 256 tmu’s and 64 rop’s. In terms of clock speed AMD speaks of ‘up to 1000MHz’ and the card is therefore capable of up to 8.19tflops, not much less than the 8.6tflops of the Fury X. The card achieves that with a tdp of 175W, significantly less than the 275W that Fury X puts out. It is not yet known what the default clock speed will be.

Furthermore, the Nano has a memory bus of 4096 bits wide to communicate with the HBM, of which 4GB is present. The memory runs effectively at 1000MHz. Some benchmarks have also been set with the slides and AMD claims that the R9 Nano performs on average 30 percent better than the mini-itx version of the GTX 970 from Nvidia. However, benchmarks of companies themselves should be taken with a grain of salt. The price of the R9 Nano is not yet known.