Today AMD is releasing the highly anticipated Radeon R9 Nano, the world's most powerful compact Mini-ITX friendly graphics card. On paper the Nano is essentially a pint-sized Fury X, which sounds amazing, but the big question is how well does it perform? AMD's paper launch a few weeks ago suggested performance was excellent and finally we get the chance to find out for ourselves...

Despite all that, the Nano is a very hard sell at $650 and AMD only have themselves to blame for that. The Fury X is a waste of money when compared to the $100 cheaper Fury as it is just a few frames faster. So why create another expensive Fury X type graphics card with the Nano? Honestly we don't know, but we do know a Fiji Pro Nano at $550 would be a much better proposition in our opinion.