Outside of the price and the coil whine it is a very compelling card. If it were $50-$100 cheaper it would be very tasty.
I am curious to see what it's like in the real world, and how supply will flesh out too. Trying to supply higher quality binned ASICS is very sensitive to production refinements, so I think until some revisions are done, retail/e-tail supply will be rather sparse.
For me the regular R9 Fury X is more than small enough, and being a water cooler lover type I would just get a block for it and spec out my radiators and fans to handle the extra TDP from the card.
Great review SKY.
It does seem that at $600 this would have been a very dangerous card to Nvidia and provided enough distinction in price from the Fury X. Personally I'd choose the Nano over the Fury X for the following reasons:
1) 6" length on the Nano vs 7.5" on the Fury X, not including the AIO tubing
2) Air cooler to fall back on for troubleshooting / resale value
3) The Fury X doesn't OC all that well on average anyway. Might as well have the better binned chip and crank the power target
Given this trend.. low end cards will be starting at 300$ in the next few years..
It is likely low end cards won't have any relevance in a few years. Broadwell's iGPU is within 15% of a 750 Ti, which is plenty enough for what most casual gamers play - LoL and the like - and Intel has voiced AdaptiveSync adoption is coming for future chips.
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