The AMD Radeon R9 Nano Review: The Power of Size
by Ryan Smith on September 10, 2015 8:00 AM ESTFar Cry 4
The next game in our 2015 GPU benchmark suite is Far Cry 4, Ubisoft’s Himalayan action game. A lot like Crysis 3, Far Cry 4 can be quite tough on GPUs, especially with Ultra settings thanks to the game’s expansive environments.
Far Cry 4 continues to favor AMD cards, which puts the R9 Nano in a comfortable position. Compared to the R9 Fury we’re looking at 90-95% the performance of AMD’s cheaper Fiji card, and compared to NVIDIA’s lineup there’s a comfortable lead over the GTX 980 and GTX 970 Mini, giving the R9 Nano the edge in both the power and size based comparisons.
The one risk for AMD here is at 1920x1080. We appear to be CPU limited on AMD cards again, and that’s letting NVIDIA quickly take the lead. Given the R9 Nano’s tendency towards overkill at 1920x1080 I don’t expect too many users to pair such monitors with this card, but it’s a reminder that DirectX 12 can’t come soon enough for AMD.
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Kutark - Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - link
I can only wish LAN parties were still a thing. Some of my fondest memories was playing aliens vs predator, or CoD2/Quake/UT/etc.FMinus - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
I'll be honest here, performance vs. price wise this is kind of meh, but the form factor is absolutely amazing. I just wish most cards would be trimmed down to that form factor, it is clearly doable as demonstrated here, maybe not right now, but the future is open. While they're at it, they might start looking at how to make those cards single slot again, that would be my wet dream.vhawkxi - Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - link
A great compact card - Installed it on my Intel 4GHz i7-6700K CPU based machine and for what I do with it, it is super. I am not a first-person-shooter fan - for RPG type of games (Myst, Riven) and music production with Avid programs it is more than adequate. Worth the $700 CAD I paid for it.Rehmanpa - Monday, August 8, 2016 - link
Mind I ask how you guys got your 980 ti to render on Sony vegas pro? I can't get mine to render and I wad hoping you could share how you guys got yours to work. Thanks.