Earlier today we reported that AMD R9 Nano cards have been shipped to AMD partners. Apart from that Iyd.kr also leaked a few slides, where actual performance numbers were mentioned. It turns out that with some research fps in Unigine Heaven at UHD resolution can be guessed rather precisely.

The Korean site decided to leak footnotes from, what appears to be, an AMD slide deck, which is under NDA. It's mentioned that the Radeon R9 Fury Nano engineering sample and the R9 290X were tested in Unigine Heaven, running the Extreme preset and UHD resolution. In the case of the test system an Intel Core i7-5960X CPU, 16 Gigabyte DDR4-2666 memory and Windows 8.1 were used to squeeze the maximum out of both cards.

Running the tests it turns out that the Radeon R9 290X scores 0.076 fps/watt average efficiency, whereas the R9 Fury Nano manages 0.152 fps/watt. Keeping in mind that the R9 290X has a TDP of 290 watts and the R9 Fury Nano features 175 watts TDP, one can now do simple maths to calculate the actual frame rates. Multiplying the TDP of the R9 290X with efficiency results in 22.04 fps. If we do the same for the R9 Fury Nano we receive 26.6 fps.

Bottom line this means, that with the R9 Fury Nano it's possible to build a single card mini-ITX system which is capable of running UHD resolution. This is definitely one big step forward compact gaming PCs and hopefully these small cards are going to be available soon.




Source: iyd.kr