AMD Nano

[BoFox]

Most people who wanted a card like this have a gtx970 mini for 300$
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-ge...-mini.html

Ha!  So much for AMD's furious attempts with the Nano - it might be just a tad bit faster than the 970, but it would have to consume about 30W more or so (dumping more heat into the ITX case).  Plus it means giving up PhysX, better driver support and S3D support, TXAA, forced ambient occlusion on many older games, etc.. 

$649 = FAIL.

What AMD needs is a take-over/buy-out from a company that fully understands the technological importance of the dGPU race.  Even if AMD could get 100,000 gaming enthusiasts to cough up $649, this would only turn out to be $64.9 million dollars in revenue, not counting the cost of manufacture and the R&D budget spent. 

Perhaps it is that AMD knows they could only produce maybe 5,000 of these cherry-picked cards for the next couple months, so AMD is just proud to see them sell for $649 a pop.  The net profit from selling even 10,000 this year would mean about $4 million dollars or so, after the cost of manufacture.  Unfortunately, the R&D cost for the whole Fury series probably cost at least 10 times that. 

AMD is simply saying to the potential investors, "Hey, look at me, I can still make kick-ass GPU's, so buy me out for $10 billion, please!!!"