Saturday, October 22nd 2016
AMD Wants You to Choose Radeon RX 470 Over the GTX 1050 Ti, For Now
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.
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
Bottom line is that if you OC, expect to get a substantially larger performance boost with your Nvidia card compared to AMD.
1. Budget and absolute maximum budget (if you can afford extra 10-20 bucks)
2. What games are you playing most: check the reviews from various sites and see which card on the budget range performs better
3. Done.
1050(ti) are clearly a joke.
From a marketing standpoint, this is exactly what a company should do in the face of competition launching a competing product. If your product is better, then show people that it's better. For anyone who is complaining about these slides, they simply biased toward nVidia. For the first time in a long time, AMD is able to trump nVidia in the low and midrange. They addressed this first, intelligently, rather than tackle the high end, which consists of such a small percentage of the overall market. AMD scored huge, while nVidia has been trying to catch up. nVidia tackled the high end first, with 1080, 1070, Titan, but who has the money for those cards, not most people.
AMD's stock has gone up over 300% since last year. Anyone who has invested in AMD has made a shit ton of money and can make more. When AMD launches Vega and Zen, they will break $10/share. They are currently at $7.30. That's gonna be around 40% more. I, personally, am going to put more money into them now.
People should really be happy that AMD finally has competent management for the first time in a decade. The fact that they are making the right moves, offering 60fps for 1080P with Ultra settings for $200 is what everyone wanted. It forced nVidia to lower it's prices and to come up with offerings that are even lower priced, so that AMD can lower their prices even more. Competition is great for all of us, so why anyone would complain is beyond reason.
The 1060 6GB is a superior card to the RX480, side from DX12 titles like Doom where the 480 trumps the 1060, but it's 25% less expensive than the 1060 and the 1060 isn't 25% better than the RX480 in most situations, so the price to performance ratio is in favor of the 470/480 respectively.
I like these slides, it will make people neglect the 1050Ti and purchase 470/480's, which will help AMD complete the comeback it's already started to make.
When Zen comes out, the same thing is going to happen to Intel. Intel is already working on a response, but responses in the CPU industry take years to come to production, so AMD will have it's time in the limelight for a while. I personally feel that AMD has the potential to reach $20+ eventually, so long as management continues to make the right decisions. The fact that Lisa Su is Chinese, seems to be helping AMD land major Chinese contracts.
They won the contracts for the next XboX and Playstation. They lost the Nintendo Switch to nVidia, but they picked up Apple, which is good for them. The more money AMD makes, the more they can invest into R&D and the better the products they make, the better the competition, the lower prices go, the happier we all are.
This is great stuff from AMD marketing.
The GTX 1050 Ti is closer to the RX 460 4GB on price, not the RX 470: www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007787%20601201888%20601206353&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=36
As we know DX 12 is Vulkan and as we know Vulkan is intended to run on all platforms (console and PC as the main). This way ported games wont suck running on any platform. All this is started by Mantle, and we know who to thank for that. If you havent heard of "Planned obsolescence" then you need to check that out, because its the way we are being played.
$20 dollars is still money, but if "the juice is worth the squeeze" go for it. Feel proud of your research and what final product you buy. Thank you for hearing this rant.