AMD puts 4K gaming graphics into 6-inch Mini ITX card

AMD has announced a PC graphics card for 4K resolution displays which it has squeezed into the small Mini ITX card format.

Radeon R9 Nano – AMD puts 4K gaming graphics into 6-inch Mini ITX card

It is a 6-inch air-cooled board which AMD expects to be used in a new type of small format gaming PCs.

The Radeon R9 Nano graphics card is based on the graphics chip codenamed “Fiji”.

This chip is already used in the Radeon R9 Fury and R9 Fury X graphics cards.

This is a 8.19 TFLOPS GPU fabbed on a 28nm process and running at 1GHz. It will process 64 gigapixels a second with a 512Gbyte/s memory bandwidth.

The $649 card will have power consumption of 175W.

“This graphics card 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,” said Matt Skynner, general manager, computing and graphics business at AMD.

“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.”

The AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card will be priced at $649 and is planned to be available in stores the week of September 7, 2015, says AMD.