Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has rolled out its latest Radeon RX 470 GPU in the market, the less powerful, low-cost version of the famous Radeon RX 480, aimed at mainstream gamers who wish to play games at resolutions higher than 1920x1080.
The Radeon RX 470 is priced at $179 for a 4GB version. However, AMD claims that 84 percent of all graphics cards retailed are priced up to $300, making the Radeon RX 470 GPU the best release for gamers, game streaming fans and VR enthusiasts.
The latest GPU is based on the Polaris-10 GPU design, which has also been used in the Radeon RX 480, but with several modifications in its hardware, leading to a lower overall performance and pricetag.
The Radeon RX 470 is prepared with 5.7 billion transistors in total, put on a 14nm process. There are as many as 2,048 programmable units which AMD describes as "stream processors", which run between 926MHz and 1206MHz depending on the amount of work. Radeon RX 470 will have 4GB of GDDR5 RAM on top of a 256-bit memory bus.
The entire board power draw is kept at 120W, as well as AMD's reference design requires a 6-pin PCIe power connector cable. Apart from all the given configurations, the third-party producers including Sapphire, XFX, MSI and Asus are allowed to send graphics cards with customised power circuitry and various output compositions.
The Radeon RX 470 also supports HDR video production and the company's FreeSync variable as well as the latest WattMan overclocking tool, which is currently incorporated into a software, Radeon Crimson, for desktop.
As AMD is trying to target more and more gamers with its modified GPUs by lowering configurations, its rivals, including Nvidia rolled out high-end powerful GeForce GTX 1080 and lower versions like the GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1060, and Titan X.