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 / GCN 3
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 - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

4556 Points (43%)

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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

4511 Points (35%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

402499 Points (85%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

28370 Points (57%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

81374 Points (44%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

12081 Points (45%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

14362 Points (35%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

14793 points (49%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

17282 points (34%)

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3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080

71.7 fps (50%)

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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +

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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen

211 fps (38%)

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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Onscreen OGL on screen

112 fps (31%)

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Power Consumption - FurMark 1.19 GPU Stress Test - Power Consumption (external Monitor) 1280x720 *

272 Watt (72%)

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Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption (external Monitor) ultra 1920x1080 *

281 Watt (67%)

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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 detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.