AMD Nano

[SteelCrysis]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1875082&page=13
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1875082&page=14
WHOA. Tom's and someone else are rigging the tests?

A formerly prestigious site that I stopped reading years ago tested the Nano card in a completely open testbed (!) and concluded:

All of this lets us overlook smaller caveats, such as the R9 Nano’s cheap coils, which make the card sound like cicadas in love. The new graphics card’s fan also isn't our favorite, since it gets obnoxious once a certain temperature is reached.

What’s also annoying is the lack of HDMI 2.0, which makes it impossible for the card to play some 4K content, and effectively limits playback on current Ultra HD TV sets to 30Hz. We’ve weighed all of these caveats in light of the great benchmark results, though, and, in the end, we decided that the award [Editor's Choice 2015] should stand anyway.

The quality and tone of the review is consistent with the reasons I stopped using the site after the original owner, who's famous name it still bears, sold it to some media group.

A formerly prestigious site that I stopped reading years ago tested the Nano card in a completely open testbed (!) and concluded:

All of this lets us overlook smaller caveats, such as the R9 Nano’s cheap coils, which make the card sound like cicadas in love. The new graphics card’s fan also isn't our favorite, since it gets obnoxious once a certain temperature is reached.

What’s also annoying is the lack of HDMI 2.0, which makes it impossible for the card to play some 4K content, and effectively limits playback on current Ultra HD TV sets to 30Hz. We’ve weighed all of these caveats in light of the great benchmark results, though, and, in the end, we decided that the award [Editor's Choice 2015] should stand anyway.

The quality and tone of the review is consistent with the reasons I stopped using the site after the original owner, who's famous name it still bears, sold it to some media group.

Of course, another site owned by the same media group didn't mention anything other than a brief note about lack of HDMI 2.0, and even said the card was quiet. They don't really give out awards though. They did, however show a power usage chart using Furmark. They were surprised Nano used the least power, while completely glossing over the fact that clock speed was throttled below 700MHz.

Hmm