Hot on the heels of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1050 Ti launch, AMD fired off an elaborate press-deck explaining why consumers should choose its $169 Radeon RX 470 graphics card over the $139 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti it announced last Tuesday (18/10), which is due for market launch a week later (25/10). The presentation begins explaining that the RX 470 is better equipped to offer above 60 fps on all of today's games at 1080p (Full HD) resolution, with anti-aliasing enabled.
Later down the presentation, AMD alleges that NVIDIA "Pascal" architecture lacks asynchronous compute feature. There are already games that take advantage of it. AMD also claims that its "Polaris" based GPUs RX 480, RX 470, and RX 460, will be faster than competing GTX 1060, GTX 1050 Ti, and GTX 750 Ti at "Battlefield 1" with its DirectX 12 renderer. The presentation ends with a refresher of the company's current product-stack, and how it measures up to NVIDIA's offerings across the competitive landscape. Turns out there is indeed a big price/performance gap between the RX 460 and RX 470,
just waiting to be filled.
The Radeon RX 470, priced $30 above the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, features double the memory bus width, translating into double the memory bandwidth. Memory bandwidth comes in handy with anti-aliasing, mega-textures, and in situations where the GPU needs to quickly move things in and out of its memory.
113 Comments on AMD Wants You to Choose Radeon RX 470 Over the GTX 1050 Ti, For Now
AMDs comparison is really just going to save some people from buying a weaker card when they could have gotten a better more future proof one for a little bit more. I had thought they did not need to even bother since the 1050 ti did not seem in the same league, but I think some people will actually make that mistake and fall a tier behind thinking its all good.
The comparison actually seems to be with overclocked nvidia cards vs reference 470, so buying 1050 ti and not planning to OC would be an even bigger mistake.
I mean, AMD always release the "cheaper" product losing some frames against Nvidia´s "expensier" product and everyone doesnt care to spend the extra dollars for those few frames, but this time that AMD has released the expensier faster product, it seems like everyone´s into buying the cheaper less faster GPU, just because it´s an Nvidia product.
So this is disappointing....
A 20 USD price difference generally translates to 2x, so 40 CAD difference. It should be more alike 30 but that doesn't happen, usually.
If Canada gets a gap like that, it'd be generally higher elsewhere.
Aaaaanyway, I see Green people vs Red people.
Vulkan is'nt everything, but it surely beats Nvidia products at a simular price-range. The future should be vulkan for many many games.
Everyone remotely competent knows these are lies from AMD's PR department. Granted, every vendor tends to stretch the truth pretty far, but this is a lie that AMD keep spinning. AMD needs to spread lies to sell their products. Shame on them!
I really hope AMD will get sued for this. This is not only illegal, but it's also morally deplorable.
Nice try AMD, but no thanks i was done with you ages ago.
So bad a product I do not want for my enemy not to mention myself . Poor advertisement AMD .
ps. at this point in time, you get what you pay for in hardware. so whatever you choose for a given price you cant really go wrong. people have been whining for so long for AMD to provide some competition and when AMD delivers (in price cuts in this case) they whine about it. it really boggles my mind.
Better of trying than just hoping it turns out for the better. They learned that lesson with Intel.
These are deeply technical matters only programmers will fully understand, but Futuremark has made a small overview: This should put an end to this nonsense once and for all.
There are three things where I can see the 1050Ti edge out the 960 4GB.