AMD announced the company’s latest 4K gaming graphics card – AMD Radeon R9 Nano at a price tag of $199-$649. It is the fastest Mini ITX graphics card ever which enable 4K gaming in the living room through ultra-quiet, ultra-compact PC designs. It delivers powerful graphics for 4K gaming experience and AMD Radenon R9 series meets virtually every need & budget for anyone who demands premium gaming experience.
Commenting on the launch, Matt Skynner, corporate VP and general manager, Product, Computing and Graphics Business Unit at AMD, said:
“With the Radeon R9 Nano graphics card, AMD is enabling 4K class gaming in your living room in an exceptionally quiet, ultra-small design built to excel in today’s games and on the latest APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulkan. There simply is nothing else like it. Our Radeon graphics line-up is ushering in a new era of PC gaming delivering remarkable performance, unmatched GPU designs and groundbreaking technologies. Today is a revolutionary moment for PC gaming, and we are proud to add this distinct product to our well-rounded AMD Radeon R9 graphics lineup.”
First previewed to gamers around the world during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in June 2015, the AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics are is based on the graphics chip codenamed “Fiji”, and is the third “Fiji”-based product to launch this summer alongside the AMD Radeon R9 Fury and R9 Fury X graphics cards. The AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury graphics family, based on the “Fiji” chip, marks a turning point in PC gaming with the implementation of High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) to deliver extreme energy efficiency and performance for ultra-high resolutions, unparalleled VR experiences, smoother gameplay, with the Radeon R9 Nano revolutionising form-factors for enthusiasts everywhere.
With 30 percent more performance and 30 percent lower power than the previous generation AMD Radeon R9 290X card, the 175W AMD Radeon R9 Nano is the world’s most power efficient Mini ITX enthusiast graphics card. The six-inch long, air-cooled board represents a new class of graphics card, enabling gamers, PC modders, and system integrators to build compact, unique, ultra-small form factors that have never before been possible, opening the door to new, sleek PC designs that are no bigger than a home DVR or video game console, and look every bit in place beside them.
