AMD R9 Nano 4GB (HBMv1) CrossFire Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3D Mark

Our first test sees the combo pitted against the ol’ faithful, 3DMark. At 1080p, we see a good graphics score of over 27,000.

Moving on up to 1440p and the scores are still really good, sitting in the middle of the CrossFire R9 390X and R9 Fury X.

Cranked up to 4K and the scoring lines up very well. Generally we would say a score of over 5,000 is the minimum to play at 4K so with an overall score of 6,158, this combination would be very good for 4K gameplay.

Unigine Valley

Now you can’t play Unigine Valley and it is a much more demanding than a regular game. However, this taxes each game fairly as there is no favouritism to either NVIDIA or AMD. At 1080p, the Nano CF combo just scratches 90FPS.

Pushed to 1440p and we see the FPS drop to 74, this is an excellent score, but it’s slightly behind the cheaper R9 390X CF option.

At 4K all of the results suffer. The Nano and 390X combo’s are evenly matched with a bigger gap between them and the R9 Fury X CF option appearing.

Compute Performance

Pitting the card at Luxmark and we can see that the Fiji core in the Nano is slightly weaker than the core in the R9 Fury X. It is to be believe that only the best Fiji cores were selected to be used in the R9 Nano cards and it is evident here with the Nano combo less than 200 points behind the full fat Fury X.