Came here to announce I have an R9 Nano undervolted to 1187 mV, power limit increased by 10%, HBM overclocked to 540 MHz, benchmark scores match stock R9 Fury X. Not much of an achievement but I like it
smokeydops nice. It's like they came from the factory with too much voltage that made it bump into a too-low set power limit. The 8pin gives is like a 220w max. So they should be able to underbody and raise limit to 1ghz I'd hope. They already have all the memory bandwidth.
Wow man ive been watching your channel for awhile and every video you post i immediatly click,you are easily the best tech-tuber and make the best vids without ads and you just seem like a really cool dude,keep up the good work man☺
As a long time fan of this channel being here since you started out, I must say that the quality of your videos has gone up. Glad to see this channel grow. Wish you even further success.
I am #203 in Unigine Valley Single GPU scores on this site. It's an NVIDIA-biased benchmark for sure, but the most power you are going to get out of an R9 Nano is going to be 15% behind a GTX 1070. www.overclock.net/forum/21-benchmarking-software-discussion/1360884-official-top-30-unigine-valley-benchmark-1-0-a.html If you go to the post number, I have some data on testing and how I reached the optimum performance level. [Also, this card mined enough to pay for itself at $380, so there's that]
I've been using a Nano for nearly 2 years now, it's still a beast and I've seen no reason to upgrade. I managed to get it through my work supplier for £350, was an epic bargain at the time and has certainly been worth the money. My Nano is plugged into my 4K tv (Have to use a DP>HDMI2.0 adapter) and it handles it well if you are clued up on the settings to tweak. The only real downside is maximising its performance takes a lot of tweaking. Upping the power limit, undervolting, custom fan curves and decent airflow will see one net Fury X performance with a 1050Mhz OC & temps kept under around 80c. Putting it in the same capability bracket as the 1060 & RX580 though is doing it a disservice, it's clearly better than both of those cards and the Fury range sits pretty much in between the 1060 & 1070 seen as they were better than a 980 - Fury can even get close to a 1070 depending on if the game can make use of it's compute. I've seen a few Fury X & Nano online lately for around £250-£300, a steal at that price
Hey man, I just tried to mail you over your business e-mail about a partially defect HD7970 I would offer to send to you for your Stuff You Sent Me series but my mail didn't go through somehow. Did the addres change?
Hey man sorry about that my old mail address got blocked for literally no reason. I’ve changed it now so it should be in the “about” section of the channel
Daniel Lee the dude did say partially defected soo it may be a simple repair like replacing the thermal paste and cleaning it or re flashing the bios or one port dont work soo simple fix is just use the other port partialy defective usualy means common sense can repair it pretty much just gotta have the know how on things.
Got a defected GTX 470/460 if anyone happens to be interested. Have to warn that it´s pretty unstable and by today´s standards far too underpowered (probably had something like 256-512mb of ram and other things that is nearly nothing today).
One thing to always keep in mind when you get an older card that was the best of its time is that it will be power hungry relative to the newer offerings that have the same performance, so just make sure getting a more power hungry card from a couple to a few years ago won't ultimately have you spending more getting a more robust PSU and through your power bill in the long run.
Can you do a benchmark of the Xeon x3460 with a GTX 950 or GTX 1050(As a budget pc)? I know I would be drowned by the comments by then but can you do it? Thank u very much! Even if u just read the comment. Pls continue making great vids :)
The x34 series can go up to a gtx 1060 when overclock I got a x3430 running on 3.7ghz and gtx 1060 3gb got only a slight bottleneck on cpu intensive games
Whenever you see an ad for a used GPU and it specifically states, "never overclocked" or "never used for mining" just move along. The people that don't list this stuff are usually the ones that actually didn't do it.
I wouldnt worry much about either with GPUs. They either work or they dont with someone's overclock settings. So if someone blue screens they try again with a less aggressive overclock. If it works it works. You arent really able to change GPU voltages out of safe ranges and miners run their cards undervolted to get better thermal and efficiency. Overclocked CPUs on the other hand are a BIG gamble. It's easy to kill one of those from the bios with too high of voltage or high load line calibration. Either can degrade a chip FAST. not nearly as easy to do that with a GPU. None-safe(unlocked) voltage controls for GPUs are pretty tough to get ahold of. You cant just hurt a GPU by turning the slider up it doesnt even do anything.
What a great video. Factual. Clear. Honest about mistakes. I've had/got ALLOT of various video cards but never had a super short one of its length. It may be my next think to look at (I'm currently building 2 itx systems anyway).
The fury always interested me on how quickly it was forgotten. Everyone was talking about it for months prior to its release, and then when that happened was a wave reviews.. than after that, everyone stopped talking about it, forgotten.
These Fury cards are pretty forgotten about these days. As it was the first cards released by the Radeon Technologies Group. The biggest barrier for the adoption for some would be the 4GB memory built-in as it is getting a little long in the tooth in modern titles. Most people also forget the Radeon Pro Duo, which had two of these "glued" together, that does handily compete with pascal gpus still. They are a great series of cards and hopefully they are put in a museum one day. PS I hope the power limit was at maximum for these tests, as I know when lts not, then the card can throttle down to about 600mhz which would impede results. Anyway, awesome history lesson again and look forward to more content.
lmcgregoruk if you read the description or listen to him he says he doesn't own the card and a fan sent the numbers to him lmao you dingus's. Lrn 2 reed
Great Video as Always, my favourite graphics Card btw. Only problem with you releasing this Video now, is that i have to scrap my current Video or think of something new to do with this card lol Guess I'm too slow to be a proper RU-vidr :P
Hello RandomGaming! I have a suggestion for you. I shall presume you have seen systems for which do not have any form of PCI-E connector for a graphics card, but, they probably have a PCI connector. So, I improvised an idea: You can get PCI to PCI-E 1x adapters on Amazon. Because PCI runs at a lower voltage, you'll need a 1x to 16x riser, for which has a power connector for the PCI-E connector so that there is no voltage issues. Thus, with this setup you should be in theory, capable of running a graphics card with a full 16x PCI-E (Of course though, not with that sort of bandwidth, just the connection!) connector on an older computer. There are some limitations, like the bandwidth of a PCI connection, and the CPU. I hope you take this suggestion into consideration, as it would make for a very interesting video I don't doubt! :D
Hey, RGinHD! I just purchased a GTX 1070 SC edition "for parts or not working" for $180 on eBay. I plugged it into my system and it works perfectly (except for the one HDMI port). I'd say this was a pretty good buy!
Yo man, love your videos. Last night I had a dream that you visited Oregon here in the States and sold me a hose for an air compressor for cleaning PC parts. Kind of random I know but I felt compelled to leave a comment a tell you!
I was able to get this thing for $210 on eBay, thank gawd. It's a wonderful card, seems to perform between my father's RX 580 and my now-deceased Vega 64 did. Only problems are the coil whine(it's a bit of a nuisance) and the fact that it only has 4GB of VRAM. Not a big deal, overall a spectacular card.
Found one of these for 250$ last year in the middle of the crypto craze, amazing pickup at the time ;) and threw it into a console itx build for a friend, from my own tests it does indeed have 1060 level performance. BUT! the damn coil whine on these things is seriously loud, you better not be recording around it and headphones are a must the harder you push the card, thats not even talking about the fan.
Graphics cards started off small, got bigger and then got smaller. You're almost correct. One of the first graphics cards that was made was the initial Hercules Graphics Card for the IBM 5151 PC and monitor. While back in the day it could only display text, it was more powerful than a CGA graphics adaptor of the day, had 64K of VRAM compared to the CGA cards standards of 16K. And the card itself was as big as the PC case itself and sat in the ISA slot. It was needed back then as motherboards were not yet advanced enough to have their own graphics processors. So technically graphics cards started out huge, grew smaller as technology improved, then grew big as more power and capabilities were needed out of them, then grew small yet again as they became more effecient My PC is now home to a 6GB GTX 1060 mini, slightly more powerful but half the size of my Gigabyte G1 Gaming Edition GTX 970.
Harmon Performance PC OK back in what day??? Find me an example of standard non propietary MB in the 286/386/486/Pentium (S5/S7/SS7)/Slot 1&A... Integrating Video Cards wasnt the norm even for SocketA/S370 PentiumIIIs, it wasnt until intel integrated a basic Video card on its P4 chipsets that it became common, but not in AMD (yes there were allways some boards) but the older the system the less integrated (most old systems need cards for all their I/O but the keyboard)
forza1sra you can find all kind of solutions, integrated on chipsets, standalone graphic chips with its own memory modules and some others use some of your system memory, integrated on CPUs is the newest of all solutions.
Hey man! You can find it on cex now for around 200 pounds. I got a lot of older graphics cards, all the time I get my hands on different cards, if you're interested let me know, maybe I can send some your way or benchmark them for you.
Oh yeah? I don't like pre-built systems. There's always something janky about them. Usually a lot that sucks in fact. CPUs in pre-builts are crap binned parts too.
R K Fury is easy to get. They should be under $300, and with 2x they edge out my $1200 Titan Xp pretty well (in most of my games, it depends what games you play obviously).
@4:15 should keep the scaling similar amongst the benchmarks, that way it doesn't make the 1% low in some games look like it performed worse compared to others.
I was able to get a brand new one unopened for $400 Canadian Ruppies last March. Quite a feat if your consider the market was drowned in inflated gpu prices.
Performance seems very amazing, I have a question though, I recently purchased a GTX 1050ti. I have a i5 2400, 16 GB DDR3 ram, and a 2tb SSD/HDD combo. Will I be able to run modern games at decent framerates within medium to high settings? (I forgot to mention I haven't built it just yet)
WolffeMC&More yes, though assuming it's a custom build, any chance you can opt for a 2500k or something instead of the 2400. That extra overclocking room really helps
In taobao, a chinese site I have found brand new r9 nanos for 1000rmb, which is about $150. And the reviews said it is all new and good. A really decent deal. Imagine having two of them crossfire for $300 (plus $200 for a 1500w PSU lmao)
About the end of the video... Miners will usually undervolt and underclock the cards they use for mining, so they run cooler and are more power efficient while mining, so they likely won't be more worn out than your typical gaming GPU that gets overclocked running at up to 80c
They really need to consider making GPU smaller but more powerful in it's scale again... Making them massive and then putting bigger heatsinks just shows that they aren't really trying too hard to advance technology. Vega Nano was mentioned a few times, never actually focused on... Probably because if they release a smaller Vega card that has similar performance to a Vega card, releasing bigger cards that are 'weaker' at a slightly or somewhat cheaper price won't change much later down the line (Vega 20 GPUs or Polaris 30 GPUs for instance). That and HBM is still expensive, and maybe we need HBM3 with cheaper, faster, scaling.
Hey, I have the step-up R9 Fury and I have it paired with the Ryzen 5 1600 and 16gb RAM. I'd be happy to send you any benchmark figures if your interested because it is a similarly hard to find card but a beast none the less
Your Vram limited at 1440p Ultra with shadow of war with only 4GB, it uses over 8GB at ultra. Gotta watch out for that 4gb vram limit when benching the fury series.
Perhaps this is a niche request, but I and I imagine a significant amount of your audience has a poor internet connection. The graphs on this video are very difficult to read on lower res due to the small type, could you make them a bit bigger in the future?
Hey, can you test some Games from the windows store like forza for example? Would be great for us to see the performance of some of those games because they are dx12 only and the results could be interesting.
Probably the reason why this card still does good today I believe did the memory is hbm 1 and I believe this was the very first implementation of that particular memory it is a learning memory they're also able to stack the memory so it fits in a smaller piece there's also a version of this card car called The the R9 Fury that card is a whole lot more rare it also has a self-contained water cooling block on the card but it was also really hard to get in your case since it had a 120 m m fan attached to it both the R9 Nano and R9 Fury had hbm 1 memory it's no surprise that a lot of the cards were used for crypto mining
OneSteelTank Actually FX has a max shutdown temp at 80c, and a recomended max temp of 62c on the core. I know my Titan Xp runs hotter around 80c while the blower is screaming, so they run way hotter than FX.
hey i have a nano undervolted and overclocked please check my firestrike gpu score,it scored 17542 more than most with the same cpu as mine 1660ti,also did a repaste after 3 years and temp came down in furmark 1080p preset max 66c amazing little card in my mini itx pc,can play forza 4 at 4k at over 60fps with freesync screen wish i had another one and crossfire lol www.3dmark.com/fs/24268930
Hi, RGHD if You still have this card, can You test power consumption with and without vsync 60fps ? i am considering this card vs 1060 6gb for 1080p 60Hz.
I would take a 1060 over it: - 6GB Vram - warranty - similar performance, often even a bit faster - probably longer driver support - less heat (=less power, longer life) Only good thing about the Nano is that it has a severely underclocked Fiji XT, which means with a fullcover waterblock (used ~50-70€) you can push it towards a 1070. But better spend your money on a good 980Ti if you want the cheapest 1070-like performance
Reminds me of my fury, I got it on eBay as a 390x and listed as not working for 140$ and when I got it it had fort nocks and replaced it and now I have a working fury for cheap.
Its a little overpriced for me though. I found an rx 580 8gb for 80 bucks used. Which is a lucky deal and is very hard to come by. But for me I think i get better price to performance but I can't knock it down it's still a beautiful card and I think they even made a water cooled edition for it too.
Still got one of these as my backup to a 5700 xt. I just can't get myself to part with it- never been attached to a GPU like I am with this one, for some reason I'd rather sell my 5700 than this little guy and I'm lucky, no coil whine (which is very common with the Nano).
if AMD actually tried not to compete with the 980 Ti back in the day with the Nano and sell them for more like 400-450$ at launch, it would have got a more serious mark in the market. but sadly, it does not give the credit it deserves to have.
i really like your videos man , could ya guys tell me something i have xeon x5460 3,16ghz 4 core procesor im thinking about pairing it with soemthing like 1050 / ti what do you think about that ?
I bought it 2 months ago for a 200$. Its was a nice deal. But it has some problems - it needs a lot of air, cause it's so hot. In closed case it starts throttling
GTX980>GTX1060(6gb)>AMD x NANO @1440p. I know because I own all three in my 3 water cooled PC's. I used bits power fittings and Thermaltake rigid tubing with a ek water blocks on both CPU & GPU.
So I just looked on eBay, and now alongside "All Listings", "Auction" and "Buy it Now," it also has "Accepts Offers""Accepts Offers" didn't used to be a filter did it?
amd gimped this card with the mandatory cooler design and voltage curve this thing is so powerful but ull never be able to use that power without a custom driver and bios its like the hawaii chip all over again but with a tiny cooler and HBM if u want one i have one with a loud fan i dont use ill give u a great deal, im using a 1070ti atm so i dont need it
I know this video is now over a year old. I've bought an R9 Nano on ebay for $100 shipped. I think at this price it is worth considering over let's say, used RX 580 or GT 1030 GDDR5.
