While AMD AIB partners will be able to come up with their own versions of the Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards, AMD will not allow them to significantly change the specifications, making the difference between a reference design and custom versions minimal.

According to a report from Expreview.com site, AMD AIB partners will be able to change the cooling system but will not be able to implement a factory overclock or significantly change the design of the PCB. The same report suggest that AMD partners will have to keep the mini-ITX form-factor and even stick to the same TDP.

Since the R9 Nano is based on a fully-enabled Fiji GPU with 4096 Stream Processors and 4GB of HBM memory, it is quite impressive that AMD managed to keep the 175W TDP. Unfortunately, it also means that partners will only be able to change the cooler and the reference one is doing a pretty good job.



Source: Kitguru.net.