AMD Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 Specifications Confirmed

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Pepperidge Farm remembers oc'd Nehalem i7-920 systems running GTX 580 cards. All y'all still yapping about 10 extra watts on a slot?

 

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Yes. Should be 15-20% faster than the 380X. The cooler seems to be the same one as the 480 so it'll be a tad quieter.

I was thinking about this but maybe I'll get a 480 and just downclock. Gotta have some spare power.... or get the 470 now and upgrade later... dunno... to be frank my 7970 still serves me well on my steambox but the lower power consumption and updated features would be nice to have.

I'll get a 480 for my main rig though.

if you can go 480, its always better to have a bit more power..

I've been putting money aside since I bought my Sandy-E four and a half years ago. I've upgraded gfx here and there but the money's still in the bank. So for me, I gots the money but there ain't no honey!

havent found anything interesting yet?

Same, I normally (As my rule of thumb) buy high end and keep for awhile and skip at least one generation. Then I can justify it to myself since I do a majority of my gaming on the PC. I am trying to keep a majority of my components in this PC for a good long time (Hoping for 4-6 years). I am very cheap about everything else though (non-main desktop related)

totaly agree! that way you can buy from the upper tiers and get the best.

AMD will easily produce an RX-485 with GDDRX and higher clocks (about 1400MHz) when more highly binned chips in stock and more of this type of VRAM becomes available. This GPU can jump over 15% more than 480 and get over 980 and match Fury non X for less than 180W. Question is when it will be ready for sale. My estimation is at late 2016.

i dont think amd will go that way.. i think they are too focused on vega in order to bother with a 485.

 

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I expect the 470 to be a better card than it's bigger brother, I expect R9 290 performance, so for $150 it's going to be an excellent card.

The 460 on the other hand should be performing like the R7 370, if priced $80, it will surely be very good, but not necessarily excellent (I wished 270X performance for $100 but I think that's not what AMD is going for) possibly a 465(?). Could potentially replace my second PC's 6850.

The 1060 should be very interesting too. More competition please... Bring on the new cards.

 

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First, they said the Polaris 11 is up to 2.5 x per/watt, we can't even test this. Second, the RX 480 is supposed to compete with the 390 TDP (275/150=1.83~, what they advertised). Third, the 970 TDP was way higher the 148w, yet people let them get away with it. So don't call out AMD when there is nothing to call out.

It was up-to 2.8x, and it was calculated from mobile cards typical board power(not actual measured power consumption): RX 480M(interestigly full polaris 11 with 16CUs) with board power 35W vs R9-M280X with board power 82W and firestrike points. Not that it's mean too much, but they should have leave up-to on that road map slide too(Polaris aint 2.5x more power efficient than previous generation gcn, it can be up-to 2.5x more power efficient). But that is marketing, which should always been taking with grain of salt.

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Reference gtx970 was marketed with card power of 145W, which was a bit too low considering it took 156W while typical gaming on tpus test(granted tpu does not have reference gtx970, but they used reference bios on evga's cards). Marketing department on nvidia and amd misuse that tdp term too much anyway now-a-days, that it's not even funny.