AMD Radeon RX 470 | Graphics Card Reviews

AMD Radeon RX 470 Review

The AMD RX 470 4GB graphics card is a 2016 released performance graphics card based on the third revision of the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. This AMD video cards competes against Nvidia's outgoing, but very popular, GTX 970 and the incoming GTX 1050 Ti, when that releases.(currently available insert review link for GTX 1050 TI)

The AMD Radeon RX 470 sits slightly awkwardly in AMD video cards range. As you'll see from our benchmarks, it's a great Full HD GPU card, but pricing oddities mean it sits in a price bracket that's just 5% lower than the more powerful 4GB RX 480.

AMD has produced a very competent video card for Full HD gaming with the latest AAA titles with a very low power draw of just 120W. Compact versions of this card will be great for micro ATX and mini-ITX PC builds, producing very little heat and noise and playing nicely with tight power budgets.

Overview

The GPU used for the 470 series is a familiar one, the Polaris 10 (Pro), an Ellesmere (codename) GPU based on 4th generation GCN architecture. The 14 nm FinFET+ process based Radeon RX 470 will push the product to 4.9 TFLOPS. With its 120W TDP it has 32 CUs (compute units aka shader clusters) x 64 shader processors per CU = 2048 shader processors. The card has 256-bit GDDR5 memory which offers an effective 6.6 Gbps / GHz memory bandwith. The reference cards will run in the 1206 MHz range on its boost clock. Expect board partner cards to run a good 50 MHz faster. The GPU with its 2048 shader processors is tied to 32 ROPs with 128 texture memory units. The reference boards have a 6-phase VRM power supply design and display output wise the new cards have seen an upgrade as well, including three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors and one HDMI 2.0b.
Overall the specs show a very potent card to play the latest games with whilst offering a good memory size versus price in the 1920x1080 and even 2560x1440 monitor resolutions.

Key Features

• 2,048 stream processors
• 32 compute units
• Maximum boost clock: 1,270MHz
• 4GB GDDR5 memory
• DVI, HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
• TDP: 120W
• Manufacturer: AMD

Positive And Negative Impacts Of RX 470

Pros

• Great Full HD performance
• Low power consumption
• Plenty of memory for a sub-£200 card

Cons

• Priced too near the 4GB RX 480

System Suggestions

The RX 470 is best suited for resolutions up to and including 1920x1080. We recommend a mid range processor and at least 8GB of system memory for optimal performance.

Game Suggestions

• Rise Of The Tomb Raider 
• Hitman
• Total War (War Hammer)
• Far Cry Primal 
• Grand Theft Auto V
• DOOM (2016)

All games by far are the 2016 most top rated games and under a pretty steep budget the RX 470 allows you to enjoy these games to the fullest resolution .it’s by far the most cheapest of AMD cards close to the 4k resolution recommend this card but well RX 480 is more suitable .

Verdict

An excellent AMD video card for Full HD gaming, but wacky pricing to close to the RX 480 making it  hard to determine which one should a person choose.