The Fury Nano Thread

[tential]

It's super low niche purpose? It's cost to performance versus Fury X/980 Ti? It's coil whine?

Outside of building a case the size of a binder, Fury Nano seems like wasted silicon. If they rot on shelves, those are Fury X people would/could be buying.

Welps, guess it's time to wait for 16nm for camp AMD. Outside of innovative designs, Fury has felt lack luster as a product.

I think they'll sell, it just is low stock, and low demand. I think it's a chicken/egg thing and I'm excited they did it because we'll slowly get even smaller cases which will grow the PC gaming market more with more options for Steam Machines. That's what I see anyway.

I agree though, the designs are innovative, but it has been a lackluster launch.

I'm excited for Arctic Islands though because I want them to continue building on this, but actually have the performance/prices to make me happy.

 

[jpiniero]

Then why aren't more Fury X cards available? :biggrin:

It makes no sense at all to me, this AMD Fury launch, but I don't sell video cards...

Maybe the water cooling has given them problems.

 

[bystander36]

The Nano is smaller than Fury..

He may have a point if you factor in the cable placement.

Yeah. Due to the placement of the power connector, it's actually a longer card than the Fury X when you compare both in a watercooled build. I guess if you want a really efficient watercooled build?

I'm not sure it matters much, as both are so short that there may not be a situation where the difference matters.

 

[ElFenix]

just having looked over the hexus review, AMD could have a really good $400ish card using a FuryX, the same thermal constraints as a Nano, but using a regular cooler. regular 980s start at $450 on newegg and that seems where this thing's performance is.

really seems like AMD doesn't have the volume coming out of the fab to do something like that, though.

 

[AtenRa]

just having looked over the hexus review, AMD could have a really good $400ish card using a FuryX, the same thermal constraints as a Nano, but using a regular cooler. regular 980s start at $450 on newegg and that seems where this thing's performance is.

really seems like AMD doesn't have the volume coming out of the fab to do something like that, though.

I dont believe the price has anything to do with volumes. AMD doesnt want a 600mm2 chip to be on a sub $500 Graphics Card.

430mm2 R9 390X MSRP at $430

600mm2 Fury MSRP at $549

I would say that even Fury is under priced.

 

[LTC8K6]

Let's assume we had 50 people who are going to buy either a Fury X or a Nano. Let's ask you if you were one of them, which would you choose? I think probably ~90% are going to choose the Fury X. I know I would.

I'm not trying to build the smallest PC possible. For me the Fury X will fit just fine. I would never buy a case to house a high performance gaming rig that wouldn't have room for the Futy X, the Rad, and also at least one other 120mm or greater exhaust location. So, I think we have a card that has a very limited market. If it was cheaper, which is what many who showed initial interest thought, then that would be different. At the same price though, the fury X is going to have much higher demand.

If AMD was thinking that way, then there should have been plenty of X available, and very few Nano available.

That doesn't seem to be the case.

 

[Elixer]

Looking at http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/amd/r9furyx/ it seems that there are even fewer Fury X's than at launch.

If you want a Nano, it seems relatively in stock at most places. http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/amd/r9furynano/

For the Fury cards, they are selling out briskly. http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/amd/r9fury/

I know AMD said that they are cherry-picking the "best" GPUs for the Nano, but, that don't really pass the smell test. They can't all be stellar chips, and thus, no allocation to the Fury X line.

One has to wonder, are they still having issues with coolermaster's pump, or their ability to get enough pumps to slap on the cards?
Or is this the case where they thought that everyone would rather buy a Nano instead of the Fury X card?