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AMD’s Radeon Nano was, in many ways, the crown jewel of the Radeon Fury family. While it didn’t offer quite as much performance as the Fury X or Radeon Fury, it blew the power efficiency of both cards out of the water. It was an incredible card for small form factor PCs, and packed considerably more firepower into the smallest high-end GPU we’ve ever seen.

The one downside? Price. At $649, the Radeon Nano was priced against the Fury X and the GTX 980 Ti, despite not quite matching the performance of either solution. That made the GPU something of a niche offering — fabulous if you needed its tiny size, but hard to recommend as a general card. Today, that changes — AMD has slashed the Radeon Nano’s price by $150, or 23%.



Absolute power consumption.

The price cuts bring the Radeon Nano down to $500, and at that price, it’s playing a different game. Unless AMD cuts the price on the Radeon Fury, the Nano and the Fury are now neck-and-neck — with the Nano using much less power, fitting into smaller form factors, and taking up a lot less of your case.




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