AMD launches Radeon RX 470

For this generation of the graphics card, AMD and Nvidia have very different strategies, where Nvidia has set its sights on upper price ranges, while AMD initially seeks to regain lost market share through a focus on lower segments. One part of this is that the Radeon RX 480 is now joined by the RX 470.

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Specifications: Radeon RX 470 and RX 460

	RX 480	RX 470	RX 460
Technical	14 nm Samsung	14 nm Samsung	14 nm Samsung
Circuit	Polaris 10	Polaris 10	Polaris 11
Circuit surface	232 mm²	232 mm²	–
Transistors	5.7 billion	5.7 billion	–
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Streamprocessorer	2 304 st.	2 048 st.	896 st.
Texture units	144 st.	128 st.	56 st.
Raster units	32 st.	32 st.	16 st.
Clock frequency	1 120 MHz	926 MHz	1 090 MHz
GPU Boost	1 266 MHz	1 206 MHz	1 200 MHz
Computational power	5 834 GFLOPS	4 940 GFLOPS	2 150 GFLOPS
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit
Memory amount	4/8 GB GDDR5	4/8 GB GDDR5	2/4 GB GDDR5
Memory frequency	8 000 MHz*	6 600 MHz	7 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	211,2 GB/s	112 GB/s
Power supply	6-pin	6-pin	–
TBP	150 W	120 W	<75 W
Availability	Launched	Launched	August 8th
Award	199/239 USD	179 USD	?

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* Applies to variants of Radeon RX 480 with 8 GB GDDR5. Models with only 4 GB have a memory frequency of 7,000 MHz and a bandwidth of 224 GB / s.

The new graphics card is based on the same graphics circuit as the Radeon RX 480, but in a scaled-down design. Instead of 2,304 stream processors and 144 texture units, these are 2,048 and 128, respectively, with dynamic clock frequencies where the range is 926–1,206 MHz.

Unlike previous data, the graphics card will not only be sold with 4 GB GDDR5, but partner manufacturers can also equip the model with 8 GB. AMD’s standard frequency for memory is 6,600 MHz, which over its 256-bit memory bus provides a bandwidth of 211.2 GB / s. The power consumption is specified at 120 W, which is the same as for Nvidia’s new Geforce GTX 1060.

According to AMD, the newcomer is primarily intended for gaming in 1,920 x 1,080 pixels with high settings, where the graphics card should be able to run modern and popular game titles at over 60 frames per second (fps).

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The recommended price for the Radeon RX 470 is $ 179 – $ 20 lower than for the Radeon RX 480 with 4GB of GDDR5. In conversations with Swedish retailers, it appears that the cheapest models will be released for SEK 2,199, while more lavish variants go all the way up to SEK 2,699.