AMD Radeon RX 470 Graphics Card Launched At $179 US

AMD has launched their second Polaris based graphics card, the Radeon RX 470 which delivers great Hard disk drive gaming performance at a sweet toll point of $179 United states of america. The Radeon RX 480 covers the sub-$250 segment with its highly efficient pattern but the Radeon RX 470 will exist focused at the sub-$199 US segment which focuses at the upkeep and entry level gamers.

AMD has launched their RX 470 graphics bill of fare, the all-time card under 200 bucks!

AMD Radeon RX 470 Launches With Polaris x - The Best Graphics Bill of fare Under $200 US

The AMD Radeon RX 470 is based on the latest GCN 4.0 architecture codenamed Polaris. The dice used on the RX 470 is from the bigger Polaris x chip which we saw in full action on the Radeon RX 480 graphics card last month. The Radeon RX 470 features a cutting downwards Polaris 10 dice which has 4 compute units disabled resulting in lower stream processors but you lot would see that the price has been optimized to make this card the all-time product nether $200 US.

Looking at the specifications, the Radeon RX 470 features 2048 stream processors, 128 Texture mapping units and 32 Raster operation units. The chip is clocked at 926 MHz only boosts upwardly to 1206 MHz. It has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at vii GHz for 224 GB/s bandwidth and the reason why it won't be available in eight GB variant is considering of its toll and market segment.

AMD RX 470 Polaris ten Block Diagram:

AMD RX 470 Block Diagram shows 32 compute units enabled on the Polaris 10 die. (Via Tomshardware)

AMD RX 470 Review Round-Upward:

AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Techpowerup
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Computerbase
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Cowcotland
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Eteknix
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Golem
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ HardwareCanucks
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Hardwareluxx
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Hothardware
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Hexus
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ PCGameshardware.de
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ PCworld
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Tomshardware
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Xfastest
AMD Radeon RX 470 Review @ Kitguru

At $179 U.s.a., AMD wants the RX 470 to be the best 1080p carte du jour and that tin can be seen in the performance slide posted below which shows that the menu will offering a shine sixty FPS+ gaming experience in many AAA titles on 1080p with High Settings.

The carte du jour additionally features a low TDP of 120W and requires a unmarried half-dozen-Pin connector to ability upward. AMD's AIB partners accept prepared a big array of custom models which volition blanket over the reference models. The stock variant of the card is quite hard to find and is available in custom models which transport for prices higher up the MSRP of $179 US. The card does end up being place in the same category as the four GB Radeon RX 480 models which deliver better performance (Effectually 10-xv%), only that'southward in the case you lot tin can find ane at the mentioned price.

The Radeon RX 480 is a great menu but for users who can't spend more than $200 The states should consider the RX 470 a approving. It's a very capable card that currently has no contest in the marketplace as similar priced cards from NVIDIA are more than than a yr old and don't deliver the same performance as the RX 470. The RX 470 is at present officially available at a cost of $179 Usa for the 4 GB reference and plus for custom models. Next up, the RX 460 will be launching on 8th August for an even sweet price point.

AMD RX 470 Custom Models:

AMD Polaris GCN 4.0 GPU Lineup:

Graphics Menu Name	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 470D	AMD Radeon RX 460 1024 SPs	AMD Radeon RX 460
Graphics Core	Polaris 10	Polaris 10	Polaris 10	Polaris 11	Polaris 11
Process Node	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Dice Size	232mm2	232mm2	232mm2	123mm2	123mm2
Transistors	5.seven Billion	five.7 Billion	5.vii Billion	3.0 Billion	3.0 Billion
Stream Processors	2304 SPs	2048 SPs	1792 SPs	1024 SPs	896 SPs
Clock Frequency	1266 MHz	1206 MHz	1206 MHz	1200 MHz	1200 MHz
Compute Functioning	5.8 TFLOPs	4.ix TFLOPs	4.3 TFLOPs	2.56 TFLOPs	2.2 TFLOPs
VRAM	iv/eight GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	2/4 GB GDDR5
Bus Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	128-flake	128-bit
Memory Speed	viii GHz	6.6 GHz	6.half dozen GHz	7 GHz	7 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	256 GB/south	211 GB/s	211 GB/south	112 GB/s	112 GB/s
TDP	150W	120W	110W	75W	75W
Launch Date	29th June	4th August	20th Oct	TBD	eighth August
Launch Price	$199 US (iv GB) $239 The states (8 GB)	$179 US (4 GB)	$149 The states (4 GB)	TBD	$99 Usa (2 GB) $119 US (iv GB)
New Price	$199 The states (iv GB) $239 US (8 GB)	$169 US (4 GB)	$149 US (four GB)	TBD	$99 United states of america (4 GB) $89 U.s. (two GB)