Fury Nano cooler = default AMD cooler for Arctic Islands?

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AMD have put a lot of effort into making a new cooler design for the R9 Nano, designed around a graphics card with no GDDR5. I wonder if this will be the default for Arctic Islands? I expect Arctic Islands to ditch GDDR5 (with HBM2 increasing capacity dramatically). It's the first entirely new cooler we've seen from AMD in years (apart from 3rd party AIO coolers), it would be weird to only use it on a single GPU.
 

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AMD have put a lot of effort into making a new cooler design for the R9 Nano, designed around a graphics card with no GDDR5. I wonder if this will be the default for Arctic Islands? I expect Arctic Islands to ditch GDDR5 (with HBM2 increasing capacity dramatically). It's the first entirely new cooler we've seen from AMD in years (apart from 3rd party AIO coolers), it would be weird to only use it on a single GPU.
I think this whole launch signals a new cooling age for amd. I wonder if nvidia sticks with their designs or improves them.
The only thing about this launch that is amazing is that amd the bad cooler options are pretty hard to find and even harder once you only look at hbm cards.

Nano cooler should be the default for the lower power drawn chips, but I still think we'll see bigger coolers obviously.
 

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I think this whole launch signals a new cooling age for amd. I wonder if nvidia sticks with their designs or improves them.
The only thing about this launch that is amazing is that amd the bad cooler options are pretty hard to find and even harder once you only look at hbm cards.

Nano cooler should be the default for the lower power drawn chips, but I still think we'll see bigger coolers obviously.

The nvidia stock coolers on the high end are designed for multi-card (i.e. it can't take 3 slots and must exhaust heat out of the case), something the current AMD range is missing. All the aftermarket coolers are basically the same, including closed loop water cooling.

Nano is the only one that really stands out - I suspect because no one has bothered to do an nvidia equivalent (i.e. very expensive super compact card for desktops, obviously there's lots of very expensive high end gpu's for laptops).
 
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