AMD Radeon R9 Nano

The AMD Radeon R9 Nano is a compact high-end desktop graphics card aimed at small form factor PCs (e.g. Nano-ITX). It is based on the same Fiji chip as the Radeon R9 Fury and Fury X and features 4096 shaders like the Fury X. The clock rate is slightly slower than the Fury X (1.000 versus 1.050 MHz) but in games the real world clock speed is slower due to the aggressive power limit). The chips is manufactured in 28 nm at TSMC and features the third generation of the GCN architecture (also known as GCN 1.2). Another similarity is the 4 GB of HBM graphics memory that is also clocked at 500 MHz (4,096 bit = 512 GB/s).

The gaming performance of the R9 Fury is slightly above a GeForce GTX 980 (desktop and notebook) at maximum details and in high resolution settings (and clearly in 4K). The Radeon R9 Fury with less shaders but higher clock speeds (in games) however can pull slightly ahead on average (not in all games). All in all, the performance is sufficient for Full HD gaming with maximum details and anti-aliasing and in most games of 2015 also for 4K and high details.

The Fiji chip fully supports DirectX 12 (feature level 12_0) in hardware and also integrates a new Unified Video Decoder (UVD). Like the Carrizo APUs, the R9 Fury is able to decode H.265 UHD videos on the chip. However, the HDMI outputs still only support HDMI 1.4 and therefore 4K at 30 Hz. HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2, like the GeForce GTX 960, are not supported.

The power consumption is a strong point of the Fury Nano thanks to the aggressive power target. It is rated at 175 Watt (compared to the 275 Watt of the similar fast Fury) and on average comparable with a GTX 980. Only the newer GTX 1060 and 1070 of the Pascal generation in 16nm can pull clearly ahead in terms of efficiency.

Manufacturer	AMD
Codename	Fiji
Architecture	GCN 1.2
Pipelines	4096 - unified
Core Speed	1000 MHz
Memory Speed	500 MHz
Memory Bus Width	4096 Bit
Memory Type	HBM
Max. Amount of Memory	4096 MB
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Transistor Count	8900 Million
technology	28 nm
Features	Mantle, Eyefinity, App Acceleration, CrossFire, PowerTune, ZeroCore, HD3D, TrueAudio
Date of Announcement	10.09.2015
Information	PCI-E 3.0

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score

4556 Points (25%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	4556

3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics

4511 Points (23%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	4511

Intel UHD Graphics 600 -98%

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AMD Radeon RX 480 (Desktop) -14%

NVIDIA Quadro P5000 -14%

AMD Radeon RX 570 (Desktop) -12%

NVIDIA Quadro P4000 -12%

AMD Radeon R9 290X -11%

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Desktop) -9%

NVIDIA Quadro P3200 -8%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop) -8%

AMD Radeon RX 5500M -5%

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop) 3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 4%

AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU 6%

AMD Radeon RX 590 (Desktop) 8%

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop) 8%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 12%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 13%

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 14%

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 326%

100%

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics

402499 Points (62%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	402499

3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score

28370 Points (38%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	28370

3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics

81374 Points (40%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	81374

3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score

12081 Points (31%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	12081

3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics

14362 Points (28%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	14362

3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score

14793 Points (35%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	14793

3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU

17282 Points (29%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	17282

AMD Radeon HD 6250 -99%

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NVIDIA Quadro P4000 -11%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti -10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 -9%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M SLI -8%

NVIDIA Quadro P4000 Max-Q -8%

AMD Radeon R9 290X -6%

NVIDIA Quadro P3200 -6%

AMD Radeon RX 5500M -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) -1%

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop) 0%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 1%

AMD Radeon R9 Fury 2%

AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop) 3%

AMD Radeon RX 480 (Desktop) 4%

AMD Radeon R9 390X 4%

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 4%

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 242%

100%

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +

3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total

43546 Points (43%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	43546

3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +

3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX

48859 Points (45%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	48859

3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +

3DMark 06

37348 Points (69%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	37348

Unigine Valley 1.0 - Unigine Valley 1.0 DX

71.7 fps (36%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	71.7

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 +

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16

800 fps (6%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	800

GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16 +

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16

366 fps (11%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	366

GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen

211 fps (23%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	211

GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan

112 fps (31%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	112

GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen

199 fps (46%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	199

GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Onscreen

64 fps (24%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	64

Power Consumption - Furmark Stress Test Power Consumption - external Monitor *

272 Watt (49%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	272

Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption - external Monitor *

281 Watt (47%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Reference Desktop PC	4790K	Radeon R9 Nano 1000 / 500 MHz 4 GB	16 GB	281

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Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.