AMD Radeon R9 Nano Video Card Specifications, Release Info, and Pricing Officially Revealed

AMD has officially revealed details about the AMD Radeon R9 Nano, a small but powerful graphics card designed for micro PCs - including specifications, price, and release date.

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AMD has officially revealed the Radeon R9 Nano, a quiet and power efficient graphics card designed for small form factor PCs. Measuring about six inches in length, the Radeon R9 Nano uses High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and features 30 percent more performance and 30 percent lower power consumption (175W) than the AMD Radeon R9 290X card. This enables gaming enthusiasts and modders to build compact entertainment systems with enough power to deliver 4K gaming to their living room televisions along with VR experiences.

First shown at E3 2015, the Radeon R9 Nano uses the graphics chip codenamed "Fiji," and will be available starting September 7, 2015 for about $649 US. The compact video card will support DirectX 12, AMD Eyefinity, AMD Crossfire, AMD FreeSync, AMD LiquidVR, and 4K Resolution.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano Graphics Card Specifications:

Process: 28nm
Stream Processors: 4096
Compute Units: 64
Engine Clock: Up to 1000 MHz
Compute Performance: 8.19 TFLOPS
Texture Units: 256
Texture Fill-Rate: 256 GT/s
ROPs: 64
Pixel Fill-Rate: 64 GP/s
Z/Stencil: 256
Memory Configuration: 4GB HBM
Memory Interface: 4096-bit HBM
Memory Speed / Data Rate: 500MHz / 1.0Gbps
Memory Bandwidth: 512 GB/s
Power Connectors: 1 x 8-pin
Typical Board Power: 175 W
PCIe(R) Standard: PCI-E 3.0
API Support: DirectX(R) 12, Vulkan, OpenGL 4.5, Mantle

Features:

Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC)
High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
AMD FreeSync Technology
AMD LiquidVR Technology
4K Resolution Support
AMD Eyefinity Support
AMD CrossFire Support

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