Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Platinum Edition Pictured

[btarunr]

Here are some of the first pictures of the Radeon RX 470 Platinum Edition by Sapphire. The card design is a close variation of AMD reference design, with a silvery plastic panel on the cooler shroud, a metallic sticker on the fan hub, and a back-plate covering the length of the PCB. This PCB features two fewer power phases than the RX 480, and 4 GB of 7 Gbps GDDR5 memory. The RX 470 features 2,048 stream processors, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface. It draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector; and its TDP is rated at 150W. The MSRP for the RX 470 is rumored to be set at US $179.



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[Lionheart]

$179???

 

[buildzoid]

$179???

It has 2048 SPs it's going to be barely slower than the 480 when at the same clocks.

 

[TRWOV]

The $179 is for the 8GB version apparently. The 4GB version would be $149.

 

[Prima.Vera]

$179???

Those should be sell off that 1...

 

[Jermelescu]

This should be more than enough for my rare casual 1080p gaming, coming from a 5770.

 

[Frick]

So it'll be €240 here then.

 

[bug]

So this has 10% fewer SP than the 480, half the memory, will probably be clocked slightly lower, yet both cards share the same 150W TDP? I find that hard to believe.

Edit: Then again, we all know the 480 is not truly a 150W part.

 

[ArdWar]

So this has 10% fewer SP than the 480, half the memory, will probably be clocked slightly lower, yet both cards share the same 150W TDP? I find that hard to believe.

Edit: Then again, we all know the 480 is not truly a 150W part.

A TDP is just, well, a Thermal Design Power. It means that a cooling system designed to cool this particular chip need to be able to dissipate that amount of heat while still below thermal treshold.

About the actual heat dissipation, or electrical power required, it can be actually lower or even higher in some cases. A lower TDP doesn't necessarily mean lower power requirement as it is actually a sort of arbitrarily chosen point based on expected thermal performance. Some engineers chose to leave a lot of headroom, some chose to maximally optimize, some just slap a common number for every part in a class.

 

[$ReaPeR$]

i think this will be the new perf per $ king..

 

[KainXS]

It more than likely will be under 150W since it has less memory and 2 VRM's removed

 

[dyonoctis]

The $179 is for the 8GB version apparently. The 4GB version would be $149.

Isn't the RX 470 supposed to be a 4GB only card ?

 

[Readlight]

So it'll be €240 here then.

I saw rx480 and gtx1060 for more 100-150euro more. Probably need to wait until christmas or its not woth to by for my 10 years old cpu and vga display
Motherboard supurt for w10 is terible swiched back to w7. i beter use my new phone.

 

[cdawall]

It more than likely will be under 150W since it has less memory and 2 VRM's removed

Same amount of memory?

 

[bug]

I saw rx480 and gtx1060 for more 100-150euro more. Probably need to wait until christmas or its not woth to by for my 10 years old cpu and vga display
Motherboard supurt for w10 is terible swiched back to w7. i beter use my new phone.

Hopefully you won't have to wait for Christmas, but initial prices are inflated. They always are and this round Nvidia's FE stunt just made manufacturers more cheeky. 1070 and 1080 may be overpriced for quite a while, but since 1060 actually has competition, I expect price will come down faster (already most custom designs are priced below FE levels, though availability is still spotty).

 

[Ruru]

Oh noes, not the same crappy aluminium heatsink...?

 

[cdawall]

Oh noes, not the same crappy aluminium heatsink...?

If power consumption is down 30-40w it would be fine.

 

[TRWOV]

Isn't the RX 470 supposed to be a 4GB only card ?

http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-470-460-leaked-pictured/

Apparently there will be 4GB and 8GB versions. I wonder if the 4GB versions will unlock to 8GB as with the RX 480

 

[lanlagger]

another 200$ card just for maximum 1080@60hz... what year is this?

 

[bug]

another 200$ card just for maximum 1080@60hz... what year is this?

Oh I'm pretty sure there'll be plenty of titles where it won't deliver 60FPS. Because neither does the 480.

 

[GhostRyder]

Mhmmm, well seems like a decent value if nothing else.

 

[cdawall]

Oh I'm pretty sure there'll be plenty of titles where it won't deliver 60FPS. Because neither does the 480.

and there will be titles when it delivers 144+

 

[Finners]

Hmmm who's going to be the first one to try and unlock this to a 480!, PCB looks the same -2 power phases,.

No copper core to the heatsink seems like taking penny pinching a little to far, the cooler doesn't cool the 480 well enough so leave it the same and hopefully it would have done an alright job on the 470 but no, they have made it even weaker and probably saved about $2.

 

[cdawall]

Hmmm who's going to be the first one to try and unlock this to a 480!, PCB looks the same -2 power phases,.

If they aren't laser cut then it could be possible. Even with 2 VRM phases removed that cards PWM section is still more than enough for the 150w TDP unlocked.

No copper core to the heatsink seems like taking penny pinching a little to far, the cooler doesn't cool the 480 well enough so leave it the same and hopefully it would have done an alright job on the 470 but no, they have made it even weaker and probably saved about $2.

Sadly most of this is probably true. It wont save them $2 a card, but I could see them trying to save the 25 cents worth of alum and milling it down.




On another note could they make this card in single slot? Could that like be a thing. Same goes for the 1060, there is no reason that a 110-130w card can't be single slot...

 

[Jism]

So this has 10% fewer SP than the 480, half the memory, will probably be clocked slightly lower, yet both cards share the same 150W TDP? I find that hard to believe.

Edit: Then again, we all know the 480 is not truly a 150W part.

The best chips are simply used in a 480X, and the chips that are either high/low leakage parts that dont qualify the R480X specs simply become a 470 or 460.

They do this since they develop chips on wafers actually. Get the most out of a proces without throwing things out that could go for less or half performance of the original chip.

Also, the 150W is not only consumed by a GPU but memory, VRM losses and microcontrollers play their role too. The stripped down VRM from 6 to 4 is more then enough to still even power the 150W TDP easily.

The R480x comes with VRM that is even stronger then the one sitting on a fury x with 250W of TDP.