AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4GB Video Card Review

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Thief is a series of stealth video games in which the player takes the role of Garrett, a master thief in a fantasy/steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with more advanced technologies interspersed. Thief is the fourth title in the Thief series, developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix on February 25, 2014.

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We ran Thief with the image quality settings set at normal with VSYNC disabled.

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Thief appears to be running on the six physical cores of the Intel Core i7-4960X processor and averages around 17-24% CPU usage from what we were able to tell from the CPU utilization meter that is built into the Windows 8.1 task manager.

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Benchmark Results: The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 Mini-ITX 4GB video card averaged 42.3 FPS and the AMD Radeon R9 Nano averaged 53.1 FPS. This puts the AMD Radeon R9 Nano up by 25.5%!

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Benchmark Results: Looking at performance over time we can see that the AMD Radeon R9 Nano was in the lead the entire time.