This summer turned out to be amazingly rich in video card market innovations, showing gamers five representatives of a new generation of NVIDIA and AMD GPU architectures: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 (Pascal); AMD Radeon RX 480, RX 470, and soon we are waiting for the budget RX 460 (Polaris).
In their capabilities and characteristics, the new video cards significantly surpass the representatives of previous generations, so the demand for new products was not long in coming. This also affected pricing – it is still very rare to see a video card for sale at a recommended cost.
In the strategy for the release of a new generation of video cards, each company pursues its own goals, which intensifies competition and forces us to make concessions or take retaliatory steps.
Trying not to lose leadership, at the same time, NVIDIA does not want to stop partners from selling the remains of valuable, but obsolete products in the middle segment of the video card market, so the first Pascal video cards were designed for wealthy customers.
This made it possible for AMD to attack the most popular price categories with its new products: $ 100- $ 200 and $ 200- $ 300, forcing NVIDIA to lower the cost of the GTX 900 series graphics cards and to hastily release the GTX 1060 in order to somehow influence the development of events.
In early August, the release of the video card Radeon RX 470, which strengthened AMD’s position in the eyes of people who are psychologically difficult to decide to buy a video card at a price higher than or about $ 200.
For the announced $ 180 we are offered to get a modern graphics card with low power consumption (TDP 120 W), and play high-end games in modern games with a resolution of 1080p.
The novelty is a slightly stripped-down version of the Radeon RX 480, the 4 GB version of which is not much more expensive than the RX 470 ($ 20), so its release can also be considered a good marketing move to stimulate demand for the RX 480 4GB ($ 200).
Be that as it may, the first RX 470s, at close to the recommended cost, will hit the market by the end of August / fall, but for now let’s see which models from AMD partners can be expected by then.
CPU / Boost / Memory Reference Frequencies: 926 MHz / 1206 MHz / 6000 MHz.
Asus
At the moment, only one model is known – ASUS ROG Strix RX 470, which is equipped with a six-phase (5 + 1) power subsystem and a low noise dual-fan DirectCU II cooling system.
CPU frequency – 1270 MHz / 1250 MHz
Memory Frequency – 6600 MHz
Length: 242 mm
Gigabyte
GIGABYTE also limited itself to one model, GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 G1 Gaming 4Gequipped with a dual fan system WINDFORCE 2X with three heat pipes. Power subsystem 6 + 1.
CPU frequency – 1230 MHz (Boost)
Memory Frequency – 6600 MHz
Msi
MSI has proposed a version with standard and doubled amount of video memory, because the RX 470 is famous for its 256-bit interface.
MSI Radeon RX 470 GAMING 4G / 8G
CPU frequency – 1230 MHz / 1206 MHz
Memory Frequency – 6600 MHz
Length: 276 mm
MSI Radeon RX 470 GAMING X 4G / 8G
CPU frequency – 1254 MHz / 1206 MHz
Memory Frequency – 6700 MHz
Length: 276 mm
Powercolor
PowerColor introduced two video cards:
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 470 4GB GDDR5
CPU frequency – 1210 MHz (Boost)
Memory Frequency – 6600 MHz
Length: 255 mm
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 470 4GB GDDR5
CPU frequency – 1270 MHz (Boost)
Memory Frequency – 7000 MHz
Length: 255 mm
SAPPHIRE
The most devoted partners of ATI / AMD introduced three models, also deciding to double the amount of video memory in one of the modifications. All models have significantly overclocked memory.
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 470 4G D5
CPU frequency – 1216 MHz / 932 MHz
Memory Frequency – 7000 MHz
Length: 242 mm
SAPPHIRE NITRO + Radeon RX 470 4G D5
CPU frequency – 1260 MHz / 1143 MHz
Memory Frequency – 7000 MHz
Length: 240 mm
SAPPHIRE NITRO + Radeon RX 470 8G D5
CPU frequency – 1260 MHz / 1121 MHz
Memory Frequency – 8000 MHz
Length: 240 mm
Xfx
This company has become a leader in the field of “creating fertility.” Buyers are offered seven options at once (partly nominal) based on the RX 470.
XFX Radeon RX 470 4GB RS Single Fan Triple X
CPU frequency – 1226 MHz (Boost)
Memory Frequency – 6600 MHz
XFX Radeon RX 470 4GB RS with Hard Swap Triple X (2 modifications)
CPU frequency – 1226 MHz
Memory Frequency – 7000 MHz
XFX Radeon RX 470 4GB RS with Hard Swap Black Edition (2 modifications)
CPU frequency – 1256 MHz
Memory Frequency – 7000 MHz
XFX Radeon RX 470 4GB RS with Hard Swap Black Limited Edition (2 modifications)
CPU Frequency – 1280 MHz
Memory Frequency – 7000 MHz
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