with the blitz of cards promising good performance at 1440p and smooth VR
experiences many of us that don't have the coin for higher reses monitor or an
HTC Vive might be left wondering where the newer gen cards focused on good old
1080p gaming are AMD has answered that
question first by rolling out the new Radeon rx470 under the banner of its #
better red marketing campaign and no AMD isn't calling for the Communist Uprising
against the NVIDIA bourgeois but rather focusing more heavily on the
bang for the buck rather than every ounce of possible performance with its
current Polaris architecture so does the rx470 have the potential to be the
weapon of choice for the 1080p proletariat let's find
out G fuel is the sugar-free Alternative Energy beverage to maintain focus and
endurance over long days and gaming sessions save using the code Linus at
the link below so the rx470 is quite
similar to its much B Hood Big Brother the rx480 both use a Polaris 10 series
GPU though the 470 has 32 compute units
and 2048 stream processors a bit less
than the 36 and 2304 of the 480 both use
conventional gddr5 memory with the 470 having a rather standard complement of 4
GB with a bandwidth of 211 GB per second
at only 120 watts of typical board power
the card should also be well suited for lower-end power supplies with Headroom
to spare at 280 wats of power draw from the wall it still has a little bit of
catching up to do in terms of matching NVIDIA's current power efficiency but at
280 Watts you can get by with a very cheap but well-built power supply just
fine this specific version of the rx470 we have on the bench today is a ni inro
plus aftermarket cooled card from Sapphire it features a dual BIOS switch
in the top leftand corner of the card which allows you to switch between quiet
mode with a low tuned fan profile or boost mode with a Max clock speed of
1260 instead of The Quiet modes 1206 the
button right next to that switch is for Led modes which can do basic mode
changes on the Fly to Your lighting system on your card or you can just use
the upcoming tricks 3.0 software to do more specific alterations to the RGB
LEDs you can even remove the dual 95mm dual bearing fans by just removing one
screw each allowing you to clean or replace them with ease the Sapphire
version comes with two HDMI 2.0 and two
display Point 1.4 ports while the reference Edition adds the third DP
connector at the expense of one HDMI and speaking of which if you're more
interested in the reference version it looks virtually identical to the 480 but
but unlike the 480 which was build as a VR for the masses card the 470 is being
marketed as a brilliant HD gaming for all there actually hasn't been a card
released yet under $200 at launch that can max out new
titles at 1080p so can the rx470 be the
first let's Dive Right into our Benchmark results to find out starting
off with rise of the Tomb Raider at very high presets the 470 got 64 FPS in dx11
and 67 in D X12 at 1080p we saw
similarly strong results in Hitman with our settings maxed out with the card
even breaking the 70 FPS Mark in dx11
moving on to the classically punishing title Crisis 3 we can find that yes the
480 can run Crisis 3 at 60 FPS with very
high settings in HD 66 frames to be exact but there's a more interesting
question to be answered as well with this card how well does it take
advantage of Vulcan the new open- source API that AMD is backing fairly heavily
well there are only three games currently out that we're aware of with
vulcan's support the most recent of which is Doom although it's not exactly
the hardest game to run Vulcan definitely gave us a performance
increase with the rx470 pushing 107
frames per second with Vulcan as opposed to 86 with openg GL 4.5 Doom doesn't
support direct X in case you are wondering notably it beat out the more
expensive GTX 1060 which managed 101 FPS
in Vulcan and speaking of expense cost is the only area where we felt the rx470
fell a little short don't get me wrong at $180 for the reference Edition it's a
very good bang for your buck card and definitely not what I'd have called
expensive however at only $20 cheaper
than the more powerful rx480 the pricing
is more than a little confusing this card really should have been a bit
cheaper to be a more enticing option however at $70 less than NVIDIA's
current mid-range offering the GTX 1060
the rx470 may even undercut a possible
upcoming GTX 1050 only time will tell but at least
for now if you want to slay just about anything at 1080p without paying a ton
of extra for compute cores that you simply don't need there isn't much
reason to go with something else even if you're not chomping at the bit to tag
all of your tweets with # better red
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