Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “XFX RX 470 RS Black Edition – Full Review”.
What’S up folks how’s it going, this is waj hope you guys are all doing well here we’re going to take a look at the brand new rx 470. Now we really love the rx 480. I still think for around that 200 price point. There’S really not a lot better, you can get, but now we have the rx 470, which comes at a slightly lower price point and what we’re going to do is take a look at the overall performance results of this version, which is the xfx rs black edition. So, if you’re interested, let’s get right into it now in terms of pure specifications, the rx 480 is very similar to the 470.
Both are using the 14 nanometer fabrication process. Both are based of the polaris 10 architecture. There is a difference in terms of how many uh shaders you have on each gpus we’re looking at 2048 on the rx 470 versus the 480 has 2304 and we have slightly lower computing. It’S 32 computing units versus 36 compute units on the 480, and both cards do come in a 4 gig and a gig version. We have the 4 gigabyte version of the rx 470 over here. Furthermore, the clock speed is uh kind of similar on both gpus and uh. When it comes to the overall memory specifications. The memory clock on our rx 470 is clocking around 7 000 megahertz versus 8 000 megahertz on the rx 480 and in terms of the memory bandwidth both have 256 a bit bus and when it comes to the msrp, currently uh right now, availability is kind of Scarce on these new gpus, but as they settle down the msrp should be represented more fairly.
Typically, the rx 480 starts at 200 and can go up to 250 or more depending upon which version of the car that you’re getting the msrp for the 4 gigabyte. A model of the rx 470 should retail for around 150 to 180. Again, pricing will definitely vary depending upon where you are in the world and what time you’re purchasing now the power parameters for the rx 470 is fairly straightforward.
You only need a single six-pin pci express power connector and at its peak power output playing grand theft, auto 5 on pretty much full gaming load. The rx 470 pulls just around 135 watts, so it’s very friendly for a lower capacity power supplies. Additionally, you get plenty of connectivity with the rx 470, just like you get with all the 400 series graphics cards from amd, so you get three displayport 1.4 connections as well as a full-size hdmi, 2.0 b connector, which is good for full 4k resolution at 60 hertz.
So that’s definitely awesome if you want to hook this thing up to a 4k at television or monitor now. Another awesome thing about this xfx version that we have here is that the cooler is a pretty phenomenal. You have a large unibody heatsink, which has a three large composite copper heat pipes, which is going to increase the efficiency of the cooling performance by up to 30 percent compared to what you see on the stock cooler of the rx 480. Additionally, you also have this really cool feature that xfx has integrated over here, which is swappable fans.
So you can see that we have a 280 millimeter fans and you can actually directly take them out and there’s connecting points embedded right on top of the heatsink, and basically this allows you easier access to clean the heat sink as well as change uh fans. If these original fans get worn out or broken for whatever reason, xfx is also going to launch a couple of different fans that have led lighting options, as well as better thermal dynamics and airflow. So this is definitely exciting. It’S a feature that i haven’t really come across before in any of the gpus that we’ve reviewed thus far.
On top of all that, you can see at the back of the gpu, you have a really sleek looking xfx aluminum backplate, which definitely is going to help out anticipating that heat on the back of the pcb a little bit better as well as look pretty darn Cool while doing that now in terms of the idle and load temps on the rx 470 uh you’re, looking at pretty darn good overall thermodynamics at idle uh, the gpu hovers around 34 degrees celsius, which is pretty typical for most modern day. Gpus cooled by air and at load we’re running at a pretty cool 67 degrees c at the factory overclock setting, which is a certainly cooler than both the rx 480 and even cooler than the zotek gtx 1060.. Now, moving on, probably one of the biggest question that you guys are probably asking is: how does the rx 470 compare with the rx 480, based on our experience with each graphics card running on the same exact s system? We can see that the rx 470 on the 3dmark firestrike benchmark scores are around 9 700 points versus the rx 480 on its factory uh clock setting it’s scoring around 10 000 points. Furthermore, on a directx 12 synthetic benchmark, 3d marks uh time spy you’re looking at about 3 800 points on our rx 470 and the rx 480 is just over 4 000 points.
Now that being said, you can obviously overclock the rx of 470 to get overall better performance, and obviously you can do so with the other gpus, but in terms of isolated overclock performance with the rx 470. The stock frequency is about 1256 on our xfx card and we boosted up to 1380 and boosted the memory by 400 megahertz as well, and we saw anywhere between an 8 to 12 percent performance bump uh when playing certain games and indeed our synthetic benchmark. So, with time spy we went from a 3800 to 4300 and with a rise of the tomb raider at 1080p went from just under 60 fps to uh, just over 67 fps, which is definitely fairly good and with the added cooling performance, i’m sure long-term stability won’t Be much of an issue now that being said, let’s go ahead and take a look at some other real world. Uh benchmark results with it, comparing the rx 470 with the 480, as well as the gtx 1060, and we’re not going to do any overclocking with those settings we’re going to keep them all pretty much at the factory o’clock specifications. So, let’s get right into it and see what we get now to conclude. The rx 470 uh certainly isn’t fast as the rx 480 or the gtx at 1060.
The 1060 is certainly the fastest budget oriented gpu right now, but for the specific price range and currently right now, it’s kind of tough to make the decision of going for the rx 470. Because a lot of the pricing out there right now is pretty much uh. Very similar to what the rx 480 goes for. So at this point, uh, if you’re in the market right now, i’d still probably recommend the rx 480 just because uh the pricing on the 470s isn’t really that competitive.
But once the pricing it goes uh to more normal levels and uh things become a little bit more reasonable in the gpu marketplace. I would definitely say for the slight performance bump that you get with the 480 if you’re not playing uh competitive multiplayer games, where you need a really high fps at 1080p, an rx 470 is going to be more than adequate for 90 percent of casual gamers out There but uh definitely go ahead and give us a thumbs up. If this video helped you out check out the description for more detailed information about all the gps. We talked about as well as the benchmarking rig specifications.
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