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AMD have announced the R9 Fury Nano GPU, a GPU with HBM memory 2x the performance per watt of Hawaii.
Read more on the AMD R9 Fury Nano GPU here.

Read more on the AMD R9 Fury Nano GPU here.
Looks like the shroud is one with the bracket... will these reference cards be watercooling friendly?
Almost definitely, especially with the single slot ports. I would imagine there will be some nice thin solutions with IO plate replacements included. Should be fun for SFF watercooling.
JR
Probably cut the clocks right down to meet the performance per watt quoted.
Now I hope for more effort in drivers.
Drivers aren't bad. Better than Nvidia as of late. Only thing AMD have done is pretty much put off frequent driver releases lately most likely due to Fiji and giving it more time in development. They have only been releasing beta drivers but it's been 1 driver every 2-3 months which tbh isn't that bad. It may be Beta drivers but there's little to no glaring issues unlike Nvidia's current problem(unless they fixed it) of driver stopped displaying.
Regarding this Nano, It may be performance per watt of 2x, but that doesn't mean they cut power down to half of hawaii.. it could simply be 2x the performance at the same TDPs. I suspect the latter but it doesn't bother me tbh
AMD has still driver issues, mainly on the performance side. GCN still has huge potential, I'm sure there is more headroom to unlock with better drivers. For crossfire too, since nvidia still has the lead on multi gpu profiles and latencies
The Nano can't have a 275W TDP with such a small heatsink, just impossible ( or 20k rpm fan )
AMDs only problem with drivers issues is the optimization with taking up to much CPU time.. or so that's what people are claiming.. I've had my GPU for 3 years and not once have I ever had an issue. It's really more user error than anything imho.
Sure the Nano canJust doesn't make it the smart choice^_^
AMD has still driver issues, mainly on the performance side. GCN still has huge potential, I'm sure there is more headroom to unlock with better drivers. For crossfire too, since nvidia still has the lead on multi gpu profiles and latencies
The single card drivers are pretty much on par/better than Nvidia now.
Doesn't look like this in some recent releases... like Witcher 3 and GTA V launch issues r
Doesn't look like this in some recent releases... like Witcher 3 and GTA V launch issues
They just don't have the money to make drivers like nvidia, frequent releases and day one-ready updates (sadly)
Hope they can regain some market share with 300s/Furys. Can't wait to see reviews ( does Tom know anything about new cards sent to reviewers? )
p.s.: looks like R9 Fury Nano will have a single 8 pin connector