Word comes from AMD via a press release this morning that they are giving the Radeon R9 Nano a price cut. AMD’s diminutive flagship, which launched in September 2015 at $649, is now the first Fiji card to get an official price cut, with AMD lowering the MSRP to $499 effective immediately.
Dropping the Nano into the Fury's price bracket is a more than welcome change. The price drop makes the Nano a much more impressive card, and a better sell all around as it both outperforms the Fury from stock, and can match the Fury X with a small 15% boost to the power delivery. Not to mention with the GTX 980 just $20 below (or higher, depending on how custom it is) the race is a lot tighter and the performance/dollar is a whole hell of a lot more agreeable.
If you're looking at 4K gaming at $500 / 200W, the Nano is a bit too good to pass up.
So with the Fury nano having the same number of shaders as a Fury X.... I think I even pointed that out on its release, if you plan on properly watercooling it anyway then this is a better choice than the FuryX probably (except for the weaker power delivery, but they don't really like extreme overclocking anyway). Fury + a Waterblock will be the same price or less than a FuryX, that is pretty sweet.
Even if you leave it at stock and just raise the power delivery by 15% it's a better choice. And a 50MHz OC is easy on a Nano too, so in the end you can get a smaller, more power efficient, aircooled Fury X for $100 less.
I picked mine up at $530 (Newegg sale) less than a month ago. Sure, saving $30 would've been nice, but no regrets here. Loading into FFXIV after the upgrade (previously GTX 780 SC) is what really sold me on 4K.
@Braysive just transplanted me into a BitFenix Prodigy and it's just loooovely.