R9 Nano - The Power of Size!

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@bodek 5 ай бұрын

the fury is by far my favorite generation of graphics. I love the history and development of the HBM memory. It's such a unique architecture. I even bought one after seeing for sale localy for 80 euros a year ago. I love having it in my collection and occasionally pluging it into my system to test it out. The one i got was really dirty and the fan bearing was shot. i replaced the fan with a gigabyte fan, so it looks a bit less rounded. still love it

@ivankovachev8835 5 ай бұрын

HD3000 to HD6000 were the best times for PC gaming. I do agree that the R9 200/300 and Maxwell generations were awesome as well, probably the secnd best time for the GPU market.

@dylan-xq1qh 5 ай бұрын

They are pretty cool. i picked up a Radeon Pro Duo for 110 at auction and its a cool card i like to mess around with every so often

@josephdias5859 5 ай бұрын

@@ivankovachev8835 id say from hd 3000 up to rx 400 series were solid especially for pricing

@emdotrod 5 ай бұрын

This card got a spiritual successor in the form of PowerColor RX VEGA 56 Nano Edition. Got one and it's indeed a powerful card for its size.

@BeefLettuceAndPotato 5 ай бұрын

I gotta Ryzen 7 5800X and RX 6900XT combo now a days but man... I used to want an FX 9590 and R9 Nano so bad back in the day lol. Oh well, the venerable 750ti and FX 8320 ran Medieval II: Total War, Borderlands 2, and GTA V just fine 😂

@estate-tidus1007 5 ай бұрын

I ran 2x r9 fury x's for 4k gaming when they came out. Dear lord did they suck the power down.

@ivankovachev8835 5 ай бұрын

A 3rd party rtx 4090 consumes close to as much power as 2x r9 fury-X XD The 3rd party RTX 4090 consume 480-520W.

@_TrueDesire_ 5 ай бұрын

@ivankovachev8835 top off with an i9K and you are set 😂

@ivankovachev8835 5 ай бұрын

@@_TrueDesire_ Yes, easily consume 900-1000W at full system load.

@vespaman101 5 ай бұрын

Same here. My room was an oven during the summer.

@rossmclaughlin7158 5 ай бұрын

That would have been awesome the last X fire rig I had was an fx 8350 over clocked as far as I could push it and 2 hd 7970s with 16gb over clocked DDR 3 n as much as I loved that rig it Also chugged Down the power lol it doubled as heater for the room at times lol 🤣

@biscuitdingus 5 ай бұрын

I still have my r9 nano and I still love it, it represents a different mentality for the GPU market and what the competition of the time created.

@alen2937 5 ай бұрын

I bought it long ago to be able to travel with it in a sort of makeshift itx build. It worked and still works great, specially in linux.

@4m470 5 ай бұрын

Broooo, do you use your system for gaming or for workstation tasks? I have a fury x amd Im thinking of building a dedicated Linux box.

@ivanvladimir0435 5 ай бұрын

I got mine new 2 years ago, got me started on real graphics cards that aren't a 25 dollars gpu that would die with anything beyond xbox 360 era, beautiful performance for something so small

@NiCO-jo2vh 5 ай бұрын

I would like to see AMD to release a card that looks like this N9 Nano. It looks so good

@DatOneGuy901 5 ай бұрын

the R9 Nano is my favorite graphics card of all time

@Adrian_Galilea 20 күн бұрын

I member a fella who had hundreds of this for mining, such a lovely setup, I always loved this card, I can't understand why they don't make more with small form factor.

@schifferu 5 ай бұрын

I have a Sapphire R9 Fury in my collection. Man do these cards look nice.

@johnyjoe2k 5 ай бұрын

Idk if you've checked, but if you love small form factor GPUs, look for RTX A2000s! Those things are like GTX 3060s, but super compact and usually go for around $200 USD.

@nexus_tech 5 ай бұрын

Hello mate - YES - I've tested A2000 what feels like few months ago :) Cracking little card

@rossmclaughlin7158 5 ай бұрын

I had a nano for small living room vr pc and it was awesome at the time 👍 made a good 1080p gaming card for my step son when I eventually upgraded it to only down side they cut driver support bit to early 😡 as this video shows it's still more than capable to this day

@michaelwood9866 5 ай бұрын

as a ati/amd radeon guy i would absolutely love to have this card!

@realnamesnotgiven6193 5 ай бұрын

I look into getting a fury card every couple years. Looks cool, small, pretty powerful for the size

@_TrueDesire_ 5 ай бұрын

I went from Sapphire Fury to Vega 64 and my god the driver issues I had with that card.. I returned it for a GTX 1080 -> 2060S -> 3070 -> RX 7900 GRE. It's back to AMD now! 🎉

@michaelkoerner4578 5 ай бұрын

Where did you get a GRE? I had to pull the trigger on a 7900XT

@_TrueDesire_ 5 ай бұрын

@@michaelkoerner4578 an online store called Proshop, very known to us in Nordic countries :) They had Asrock models just for a few days, so I snagged the Steel Legend one. They still have the reference one listed as XFX. I wanted the 7900 XT buuut I already went passed my budget as it is, building a whole computer eats through the wallet very quickly.. Enjoy your beast! 😎

@Friddle 5 ай бұрын

My favourite low profile card has got to be the Gigabyte RTX 4060 LP. The small size, relatively low power draw and rendering speed is amazing. Currenting running an ITX RTX 3060 12GB in my ITX build as I built this before the LP 4060 was released.

@tuckerhiggins4336 5 ай бұрын

I bought one, it is fun to play with. With manufacturers still did stuff like this

@vespaman101 5 ай бұрын

Fury and Vega 100% had the most esthetically appealing die.

@mesicek7 5 ай бұрын

I remember when one of the AMD employees had the gall to say 4gb of hbm ram is the same as 10gb of gddr5. And some of the AMD fanboys bought into that shit.

@karlogrimaldi6787 3 ай бұрын

I suppose that employee might be working at NVIDIA now 😂that's why they have VRAM sizes such as they have

@mesicek7 3 ай бұрын

@@karlogrimaldi6787 I think he's retired. If you think Nvidia's shady you should check all the bs AMD said for advertising.

@karlogrimaldi6787 3 ай бұрын

@mesicek7 I think both companies have their shades, I'm using Nvidia GPU myself. Business is business as they say.

@jpvalverde85 4 ай бұрын

A lovely trend that AMD didnt continue even having the means (Vega) the ITX or compact form factor and the 175W power limit. Still using my R9 Nano, now thru alternative drivers, fortunate to have them available but sadly because AMD quit giving support for this chips and for HBM on desktop GPUs.

@dabombinablemi6188 5 ай бұрын

Smaller than my GTX 650ti OC 2GB (and surprisingly runs cooler). I've been tempted so many times to buy an R9 Nano, but the limited vRAM has always stopped me as some of my games run really bad on cards with 4GB - so I bought a second hand GTX 1070 instead (cost under half of what I paid for my GTX 970 at launch). Plus of the 2 PC that I could put one in - both have 8GB RX 580, so it'd be a straight downgrade. Would be a different story if I'd given my GTX 970 G1 Gaming (which I've seen draw over 200W due to it overboosting) to someone - beyond testing memory bandwidth on the card it actually kept usage at 3.5GB, so the Nano would have been some form of improvement while saving power.

@nexus_tech 5 ай бұрын

Do it! hah! It feels magical this card :)

@bervirus 5 ай бұрын

It would be great if in the next video, you also show GPU/CPU power draw on the overlay

@nexus_tech 5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate :) I always try to show when available via Afterburner/HWInfo

@Karti200 5 ай бұрын

Imagine that Vega suppose to get its own NANO variant sadly it never came outside of showcases :(

@bervirus 5 ай бұрын

There was powercolor vega 56 nano, 150 watts, its rare though

@Karti200 5 ай бұрын

@@bervirus there was!? i was always thinking it really never went to the customers

@jwoody8815 5 ай бұрын

4GB is generally enough for 1080P, especially in older games, beyond that it can become a problem.

@JHEntertainment98 3 ай бұрын

I know of some modern games these days that use 8 GB when you max it out 1080p.

@RuruFIN 5 ай бұрын

R9 Fury/Nano was too ahead of its time as the card could benefit for 8GB VRAM.

@BoomTerra 5 ай бұрын

Hello thanks for your content, Is there anyway you can put the game DayZ in your benchmarks thx...

@amdintelxsniperx 24 күн бұрын

the firepro version of this card has 8gb hbm ram and is even more amazing

@XionLuis 5 ай бұрын

too bad the hbm tech is too expensive to manufacture. my favourite card of all time was the Radeon VII, beautiful card and with a lot of HBM 2. hopefully someday we'll see a comeback

@tek_lynx4225 5 ай бұрын

It's not they just want to horde HBM now for AI accelerators and continue to try and make modern gamers think Memory bandwidth isn't important for gaming, with really crappy designs and putting 128-bit and less memory buses on 200watt cards. Fury\Vega HBM cards were not any more expensive then NV cards at the time and there is little reason all gaming gpus should not be using it at this point.

@mimimimeow 5 ай бұрын

@@tek_lynx4225 Untrue. Fury and Vega was "cheap" because they were really just discarded professional chips. HBM was like 5x more expensive due to increased complexity on interposers and packaging. They are cheaper now due to datacenter demand but GDDR gets cheaper faster. As much as I hate crappy 128-bit memory making comeback on gaming GPUs, it needs to be highlighted that HBM is more useful in a datacenter scenario and therefore supplies primarily go there. For gaming scenario you can just get away with caches and use that savings for larger dies instead. It's not like PS2 architecture when you need 2560-bit just so it can do blending.

@HuntaKiller91 5 ай бұрын

Strix point can be around this performance ez with 25w tdp

@NikiDaDude 5 ай бұрын

Such a cool card honestly. I think HBM and unified memory would be great for an APU in a Steam Deck type of device, though its probably cost prohibitive.

@skorpysk 5 ай бұрын

it's a cool concept too bad they didn't improove upon it, i feel it could be great if it was worked on more

@ZaberfangX 5 ай бұрын

Can't forget lower power = more saving with powerbill if power is not cheap.

@josephdias5859 5 ай бұрын

Would like to see some of that hbm or hbm2 on a apu

@CougarCat21 5 ай бұрын

Why no Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark?

@nexus_tech 5 ай бұрын

I will return to FuryX and cover CP :)

@vulturebr9274 5 ай бұрын

You can make the BEST GPU EVER, but if the architecture is hard to work it won´t be used at full capacity. AMD is well known as good hardware maker, but not to good drivers developer. Vulkan uses it better than DX or OGL. It's limitation nowadays, aside the drivers, is the 4GB of VRAM.

@samoskvarenina4285 5 ай бұрын

how you get smouth fps in gta 4?

@Proxz 5 ай бұрын

He used an optimization mod ( kinda ) called dxvk

@darexas1602 5 ай бұрын

@@ProxzThat's what he says but the overlay still says DX9. It seems he didn't install DXVK properly.

@nexus_tech 5 ай бұрын

Hello mate, check this out - www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/gsn6w8/dxvk_works_magic_on_gta_iv/

@Proxz 5 ай бұрын

@@darexas1602 oh, i didnt notice that. At the same time i never got dxvk to run on my system

@darexas1602 5 ай бұрын

@@Proxz If you copy the proper files, it has to work. Or the game might crash but it has to do something.

@damiank9443 5 ай бұрын

1:07, well, PS2 had 2560 bit bus in 2000.

@tim3172 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, 1/1000th the size at less than 1/3rd the clock rate for 48GB/s vs 512GB/s. Definitely a close technical achievement. (It's much easier to make something slow and wide, just ask an IDE cable or LPT printer cable. It's infinitely harder to make something fast and wide.)

@mimimimeow 5 ай бұрын

It was definitely impressive, on 180nm aluminum interconnect. Half of the GS rasterizer die was just memory, the other half is just pixel pipeline. the 48GB/s was nuts for 2000. It was basically PS1 GPU with pixel fillrate abuse/overdraw philosophy, that's why certain ports from PS2-lead games just don't work well on PC and PS3 GPUs back then - for example MGS2 and Silent Hill 2.

@bamcorpgaming5954 5 ай бұрын

no mention of linux or nimez drivers at all... linux open source drivers can breathe new life into these cards and boost their performance.

@BeefLettuceAndPotato 5 ай бұрын

Hmmmm I can't lie, I'd love to see an R9 Nano running SteamOS (or Chimera)

@bamcorpgaming5954 5 ай бұрын

@@BeefLettuceAndPotato the performance could potentially be a lot better because the mesa drivers are being updated to this day for even older gpus than this one. where as windows drivers were dropped years ago so this video isnt a very good reflection of the cards true potential.

@BeefLettuceAndPotato 5 ай бұрын

@@bamcorpgaming5954 I feel you, I think not a good reflection is a little harsh though. It's an idea of how it'll do in the most common of set ups where most people may not even know about Linux gaming to begin with. You could do a whole separate video on the Linux side though and get more views 😏