AMD has announced the Radeon RX 470 and its sibling RX 460 at the E3 2016 in mid-June. The RX 470 is an efficient solution for gamers looking for an impressive graphics card.
Here is what reviewers have to say about the latest AMD GPU.
AMD has priced the RX 470 below $200, which can give stiff competition to rivals.
"If you're in the market for an affordable graphics card, built around a modern GPU with strong DX12 support and all of the latest display output technologies, the AMD Radeon RX 470 should be on your short list of considerations. Nvidia may tweak pricing on its mainstream GeForce GTX cards or may even have a Pascal-based GTX 1050 up its sleeve that could alter the landscape somewhat, but as it stands Radeon RX 470 is a great value for gamers looking for a graphics card in the $180 price range," says Marco Chiappetta of HotHardware.
The noise level of the RX 470 is very low.
"Being an X model it has been fitted with the awesome TwinFrozr VI cooler that once again proves its effectiveness as this is the most silent RX 470 we have tested to date. The product is completely silent even under full load stress," says Hilbert Hagedoorn of Guru3D.
The clock speed of the RX 470 is very close to the RX 480.
"The RX 470's clock speeds top out at 1,206 MHz, with 4 GB of onboard GDDR5 memory traveling over a 256-bit bus. That's pretty darn close to the RX 480's 1,266 MHz max clock speed, and the same amount of base RAM. Under the hood, the RX 470 has only four fewer compute units than the RX 480; 256 fewer stream processors; 16 fewer texture units; and the same amount of ROPs," says Brad Chacos of PCWorld.
Reviewers have found that the RX 470 offers impressive gaming quality.
"We're looking at GeForce GTX 970-like performance in The Division. The game is so tough on ultra-quality settings that the RX 470 fits in best at a 1080p resolution," says Tarinder Sandhu of Hexus.
AMD has not cut down on the configurations of the RX 470 when compared to the RX 480.
"Although you could say that this Polaris 10 model is a few cards short of a full deck, it's worth noting that the core configuration hasn't been cut down that much. We're only seeing an 11 percent reduction in SPUs and TMUs when compared to the fully fledged RX 480, while the ROP count remains at 32," says Steven Walton of TechSpot.
Some reviewers think that the RX 470's design could have been better.
"It measures 24.2 cm from the slot cover to the end of the card, and it stands 12 cm tall (measured from the top of the motherboard slot to the top of the card). You probably wouldn't call that small or compact. A depth measurement of 3.5 cm comes in just under the maximum for a dual-slot design. There is no back plate to give it extra rigidity," says Chris Angelini of Tom's Hardware.
