AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Durch die Bank berichten die Tester bei der R9 Nano von heftigem Spulenfiepen, das weit über den bereits gewohnten Geräuschpegel bei hohen Frameraten hinausgeht. Angeblich sollen billige PCB-Komponenten dafür verantwortlich sein. Erst entsprechende Custom-Designs von Board-Partnern könnten das Problem lösen.

[quote]PCPer

When AMD launched the AMD Fury X card, one of the difficulties that AMD had was the annoying pump whine that permeated through the initial run of testing samples as well as the first batch of retail samples. AMD claims that a fix has been put in place for this but honestly we haven’t been able to get a hold of any other product from later production runs to validate that claim. Because of that calamity I was disappointed to power on the R9 Nano for the first time on our test bed and hear the sound of coil whine from the card. This wasn’t the same problem as the Fury X, obviously, but instead the clear sound of inductors generating a buzzing sound that varies as the frame rate in the game changes. In a loading screen that is hitting 400 FPS? You are going to get a high pitched whine from the card. Playing a game at a modest 45 FPS? The sound will be a much gentler, lower pitched buzzing similar to that of a bumblebee. The annoyance of this coil / PWM noise is going vary from user to user I’m sure, but the consensus in the office is that because the noise varies with the frame rate of the game it is MORE noticeable than the pump whine we found on the Fury X cards earlier in the summer.

Eurogamer

Our only gripe comes from the dreaded ‘coil whine’ – the R9 Nano is much louder here than the Fury X, a card we re-tested during production of this feature. It sounds akin to a constant buzzing, something that may be unique to our particular review sample.

Bit-Tech

In the acoustic department, our main gripe with the R9 Nano is actually the coil whine we experienced throughout testing which was often considerably more obvious than any system fan noise. For such a premium graphics card, we would expect the use of better components and greater quality control to prevent coil whine, or at least to dampen it to some extent, and we hope that when retail availability proliferates AMD ensures coil whine is fixed, or at least minimised.

HardwareHeaven

Coil whine/Noise as it is commonly called is very much an issue on the R9 NANO. At above average framerates its almost a rattle and then as the FPS escalate it really turns into a near whistle. It’s the worst case of this phenomenon we have heard to date and it was close to causing the R9 NANO not to get any sort of award/recommendation.

LegitReviews

AMD has only sent us two Fiji based cards and the Fury X has really bad pump whine and the Nano has choke whine. We know that AMD put a ton of time and effort into making the build quality on this card one that was said to be premium, so it’s really shocking to see that another noisy card was delivered to us by AMD to review. The choke noise on the AMD Radeon R9 Nano isn’t nearly as bad as the pump whine on the Fury X, but it’s something we don’t expect to see on a $649 video card here in 2015 where premium components are readily available.

TweakTown

Major Coil whine: This is seriously annoying, but only in an open test bed. Inside of a system it will be much better, but I need to question this. Is AMD having issues with the Fiji-based cards? Because the Fury X had serious whine from the cooler too, but the R9 Nano doesn’t have a watercooler or a pump. What gives?

Hexus

However, we noticed significant coil whine across our suite of games, particularly in Total War: Rome II. This may be sample-specific, but it would grate us long term if this was the case with all cards.[/quote]

Wer das Ausmaß des Spulenfiepens selbst hören möchte, sollte sich folgendes Video anschauen:

Finde es immerwieder schade, wenn Hersteller Grafikkarten mit deutlich hörbarem Spulenfiepen auf den Markt bringen. Was denken die sich dabei?

Zitat von Denne

Finde es immerwieder schade, wenn Hersteller Grafikkarten mit deutlich hörbarem Spulenfiepen auf den Markt bringen. Was denken die sich dabei?

"das passt schon, hauptsache die Performance ist supa!!1"

Zitat von smashIt

mat, ich glaub dich hat gerade die zensur erwischt

Haha, das Wort "whine" wurde bis dato zensiert. Ist noch von früher, wo das Wort ständig verwendet wurde. Ich habs jetzt gefixt und gleich ein paar andere Worte ebenfalls aus der Zensurliste geworfen.

Zitat von mat

Haha, das Wort "whine" wurde bis dato zensiert. Ist noch von früher, wo das Wort ständig verwendet wurde. Ich habs jetzt gefixt und gleich ein paar andere Worte ebenfalls aus der Zensurliste geworfen.

Danke AMD!

Also von dem Video her bin ich mir jetzt nicht sicher, dass die R9 Nano wesentlich schlimmer/lauter als sämtliche von mir getesteten 280X und 770GTX sind. Vor allem die 280X (davon hatte ich insgesamt 3 verschiedene hatten es echt in sich). Bin dann wieder auf eine 660ti zurück gegangen, da da das coil whine wesentlich geringer ausgefallen ist. Was das angeht weine ich meiner 560ti noch immer nach, denn die war wirklich komplett still.

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edit: nein, noch immer zensiert.