AMD’s Polaris-based RX Series graphics cards have launched in South Africa, and are aimed at the low-to-mid range PC gaming market.
The Radeon RX 480 offers gaming enthusiasts the opportunity to experience affordable VR with its stellar price-to-performance ratio.
While the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 are both relatively powerful, they lack the VR capabilities of the flagship Polaris GPU, focussing instead on “brilliant Full HD gaming” and eSPorts performance respectively.
Check out the specifications of the three graphics cards below:
Specifications
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Specifications
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Radeon RX 460
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Radeon RX 470
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Radeon RX 480
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| Stream Processors | 896 | 2,048 | 2,304 |
| Base Clock | 1,090MHz | 926MHz | 1,120MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1,200MHz | 1,206MHz | 1,266MHz |
| Memory Speed | 7Gbps | 6.6Gbps | 8Gbps |
| Memory Amount | 2/4GB GDDR5 | 4GB GDDR5 | 4/8GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 112GB/s | 211GB/s | 256GB/s |
| TDP | <75W | 120W | 150W |
| Peak Compute | 1.96 TFLOPS | 3.80 TFLOPS | 5.16 TFLOPS |
Performance
TechSpot has conducted a real-world gaming performance comparison of a number of graphics cards, including the Radeon RX 480, RX 470, and RX 460.
Check out the benchmarks below (click images to enlarge):
Pricing
Below is the cheapest available pricing for the Radeon RX Series graphics cards:
- PowerColor Radeon RX 480 Red Devil 8GB – R5,199
- PowerColor Radeon RX 470 Red Devil 4GB – R3,999
- PowerColor Radeon RX 460 Red Devil 2GB – R1,999
All three Polaris graphics cards offer high performance at a relatively lower price than previous graphics card generations, with GPUs like the Radeon RX 460 and RX 470 lowering the cost of building a gaming PC to something more in line with console pricing.
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So confused now, is the PowerColor Red Devil or HIS a good brand? I want to buy the RX470 but something tells me to get the RX480 .
Also not sure and i need to make sure what pin connector the graphics card uses? I do have a 6 pin connector….but is that what is needed?
Will i also be able to run RX470 and RX480 in crossfire?
Can you run different cards in crossfire mode?
I tried to run my GTX 650 with my 9800 GT but hell i dont know how u do it. When windows is setup then i go to device manger and i see one of the cards is disabled. Not sure if they are so different in performance? or u cant?
the board i have is MSI A88x G43
Some sites have mixed pin connector facts and reviews.
Please help me somebody ?