AMD Extends Polaris GPU Line-up With Mainstream Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460

Some more graphics cards news via our long time reader MojoKid: AMD is officially announcing its newest mainstream members of the Polaris graphics family today, known as the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460. AMD is touting the RX 470 as a perfect companion for 1080p resolution gaming, offering 60+ FPS performance (with anti-aliasing enabled) in popular game titles. The RX 460, on the other hand, is based on Polaris 11 architecture, which has a more budget-minded performance profile. If all you're looking for is an efficient, yet capable eSports gaming card, then AMD claims the RX 460 still has you covered. Peak compute performance for the RX 470 drops in at 4.9 TFLOPs (compared to 5.8 TFLOPs for the Radeon RX 480). The RX 460 has less than half the stream processors and less than half the compute units of the RX 470 and as a result, the peak compute performance stands at 2.2 TFLOPs. Pricing for the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 is set at $149 and $99 MSRP, respectively.

The RX470 makes me want to try AMD again

[rsilvergun]

If they can get that kinda performance with good stability. I haven't tried AMD since the 43xx era because the 4350 I used to replace an aging 1650x could never stay stable in the game I was playing at the time Psychnauts) and my friends with AMD either had tons of stability issue or only ever play big titles like Call of Duty and Dots ( which run fine)

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[Kartu]

Those are just buzzwords, part of the known FUD campaign, not facts.
AMD drivers were better than nVidia's for the last 2 years or so at the very least.
AMD's GPUs took over much more expensive competitors from the past (290x vs 780Ti) in most titles, nVidia's simply age terribly.

nVidia does hold the upper hand as far as perf/watt goes, that's true, but it doesn't change anything in 480/470/460 tier (and 470/460 will likely have better perf/w than 480) as difference is pretty negigable, about 40 watts or bel

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[Khyber]

Laptopvideo2go should be able to show you how to modify the .ini driver file (or might even have one pre-made) so that the newer driver sets will recognize the older hardware. Do the upgrade and then install the GPU afterwards.

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[Narishma]

How so? That card is more expensive than the RX480.

Re: The RX470 makes me want to try AMD again

[rsilvergun]

That was kinda my thought. I can't see comparing the two when there's an $80 price difference on a $200 card. But $200 is my price ceiling for graphics so take that with a grain of salt.

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[bloodhawk]

The GTX 1060 is in no mans land, no SLI, more expensive than the RX 480 with similar performance. It only has a single defining benefit and that is it is slightly less power hungry than the RX 480, I don't know what the fuck Nvidia were thinking with the pricing when they released it.

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[Khyber]

"I haven't tried AMD since the 43xx era because the 4350 I used to replace an aging 1650x could never stay stable in the game I was playing at the time"

That was ENTIRELY your fault. The 4350 is a mobile GPU while the X1650 was a desktop-class GPU of which the GT and XT versions handily STOMPED the HD4350.

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[by (1706743)]

Sure, but if you're trying to do, say, some GPU computing with a limited budget, it might (?) be wise to shop around and perhaps settle for multiple budget cards as opposed to one mid/high-end card. Taking the numbers at face value, the RX470 claims to offer 4.9 TFLOPs for $150, whereas the GTX1080 is something like 9 TFLOPS for ~$600 (I'm assuming these are comparable floating point tests, but perhaps they're not...).

Yes, I'd rather an Nvidia card that offers good performance and "just works" under Linu

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[blackomegax]

cool troll bro. AMD works flawlessly on linux with FLOSS drivers, and you don't even have to poke the code (in fact, it's in most distro's as binaries! that work! shocking!) You DO lose some performance, but AMDGPU drivers are still a heavy WIP that AMD and community are rapidly improving. But you keep trollin'.

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[Dogtanian]

Seriously, this is a nerd site, and nerds care about performance.

Some do, some don't.

Maybe some of you want to spend your days looking through open source video driver code, but real nerds want to actually do stuff and get good video performance.

So, someone's not a "real nerd" if they want to spend "days looking through open source video driver code" (sounds pretty stereotypically nerdish to me) rather than just getting stuff done (which was traditionally associated with ordinary, non-nerdish users who saw the technology as just a means to an end)?

Let's face it; you're trying to force a definition of "nerd" that supports your own point of view, a la "No true Scotsman".

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[Kjella]

Car analogy time:
Someone who only cares about performance? We call those race drivers. Someone who only wants a solid car to drive often? Taxi driver. Car enthusiasts/nerds will probably have some oddball car polished and styled in top condition and spend an inordinate amount of time keeping it that way. That said, most of them don't want a broken transmission. It's not the sort of thing you casually tinker with, it's very basic functionality that has to work. Fixing it yourself would be very nerdy but it's

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[ShanghaiBill]

Seriously, this is a nerd site, and nerds care about performance.

True nerds don't care about graphics performance, they only care how fast their GPU can do matrix multiplications in OpenCL/CUDA for their neural network training cycles.

Has anyone benchmarked these cards for, say, a three layer denoising autoencoder ANN on MNIST digit recognition?

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[Aighearach]

Right, but even then, I don't care how fast my GPU can do anything. What I do care about is that the code I write is efficient enough that there won't be bottlenecks on my workstation. I mean, it has to scale too, right? And when I need to use an API, it should work on my workstation. That includes 3D stuff, whether I'm doing graphics or statistics. That's why I love my AMD A-series! It isn't the fastest at anything, and it isn't the most efficient on the market, but it is the most efficient that can "do ev

I'm going to throw up.

[Type44Q]

If all you're looking for is an efficient, yet capable eSports gaming card

eSPorts gaming card?? The inane desperation is strong in this one...

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[Anonymous Coward]

E sports, you fucking dork.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I think the shot was at "e"Sports, not real sports. I can't think of any real sports that allow you to sit on your ass and eat Cheetos while playing. Hell, maybe we can make that part of the definition of a "sport".

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[Anonymous Coward]

One of the traditional differentiating factors between "sport" and "game" was the risk of injury. As such, car racing was a sport, and chess was a game.

Using that same standard, eSports simply need controllers with a strong enough force-feedback system to break smaller bones and/or cause second degree burns.

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[TeknoHog]

One of the traditional differentiating factors between "sport" and "game" was the risk of injury. As such, car racing was a sport, and chess was a game.

It's all fun and games until you find a bishop in your eye socket.

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[Tough Love]

One of the traditional differentiating factors between "sport" and "game" was the risk of injury.

Never heard of carpal tunnel syndrome? I recently saw a top Dota 2 professional put on a full arm carpal tunnel brace to play.

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[Khyber]

Nah, they'll get CTS from those newer shitty mechanical keyboards out.

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[spire3661]

NO its not. 'eSports capable' is a distinct level of hardware power that is well understood. I really dont like the term eSports, but this usage is legit.

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[blackomegax]

Translation: games that were designed for lowest common denominator hardware (Intel GPU) will run super well with settings jacked far up on this.

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[Tough Love]

Translation: games that were designed for lowest common denominator hardware (Intel GPU) will run super well with settings jacked far up on this.

You haven't run Dota 2 recently. A low end card gets you a retro experience.

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[Tough Love]

If all you're looking for is an efficient, yet capable eSports gaming card

eSPorts gaming card?? The inane desperation is strong in this one...

Whoops, you're sounding a bit out of touch there. Dota 2 International 6 prize pool now about to pass $19 million. [prizetrac.kr] More than 1 million online and playing right now.

Passive cooling

[Tough Love]

The RX250 sounds like a candidate for passive cooling. As soon as I see one of those I will grab it, silence is a big deal, and 2.2 tflops is still a lot for my needs.

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[Tough Love]

Ah, bleah, RX 450...