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hi welcome back to Hardware unboxed i'm your host Matt and today we have the official specifications for amd's upcoming radeon r9 nano that we'd like to share with you two months ago now and be released what is by far its most powerful GPU today codename fiji xt and better known as the radiant iron fury X under 4096 SPU's and aimed his high bandwidth memory the fury ax was able to rub shoulders with the GeForce GTX 980 TI shortly after the arrival of the fury acts we were given the more affordable vanilla fury featuring 3584 SP use the same four gigabyte HTM buffer the next GPU the land from the Radian series will be the Radian are known nano and this perhaps AMD is most exciting GPU yet as the name suggests the Nano is going to be a very compact graphics card some forty percent shorter than the reference r9 290x are just six inches or 152 millimeters long envy is promising what they describe is the library quiet operating volume of just 42 desert bells which they're quick to point out is 16 decibels quieter than the r9 290x although the Nano is just 152 millimeters long it's still a dual slot card built on a black PCB it features a full metal shroud covering a high-density aluminium heatsink complete with a vapor chamber and jewel heat pipe setup which includes a dedicated heat pipe to remove heat from the voltage regulator despite its tiny size the nana will be up to thirty percent faster than the r9 290x thanks to 4096 stream processors the same amount is the liquid cooled fury x oddly unlike the fury ax the Nano isn't going to be liquid-cooled and yet AMD says it will run 20 degrees Celsius cooler than the r9 290x given the target temperature of just 75 degrees the Nano will also consume thirty percent less power than the i9 290x and will require just a single 8pm pcie power connector this gives the Nano a typical board power rating of just 175 watts which is thirty-six percent lower than the rating given to the fury X the fact that the Nano features a fully fledged fiji xt core with 4096 stream processors is confusing for the simple fact that the furious required a liquid cooler to support that many processors the key is in the typical board power rating which as I just mentioned is thirty-six percent lower this means the stream processors must be running at a much lower frequency using a lot less voltage interestingly ambi says that the nanos core can clock up to 1000 mega hertz just 50 megahertz shire the fury X's maximum frequency these specifications to make sense the Nano would have to spend most of its time operating in a much lower frequency i guess i would say 800 megahertz or possibly a little less interestingly also the pixel fill rate is only slightly lower and matches that of the vanilla fury while a texture rate of 256 gig of transfers per second is only five percent lower than the fury axe but fourteen percent higher than the fury nano is also good for 8.19 teraflops of single precision performance which is just five percent lower than the 8.6 teraflops of the fury x Andy is claiming that the Nano will be the fastest and most power-efficient mini-itx card on the market beating the gtx 970 by thirty percent radeon r9 nano is certainly an exciting looking graphics card and suspect if you can keep it cool to perform to be very strong the only thing that remains a mystery other than the true performance is the price on paper they're known as should at least match the fury performance wise so a price of at least five hundred fifty dollars is to be expected that's sad i'm just guessing here so the price would be significantly different once the card is released some September tenth and it will all come down to how accurate that up to thirty percent faster claim really is this is being mapped the harbor on box let me know it think of the Nano in the comments don't forget to hit like hit subscribe and we'll see you next time yes