The Radeon RX 460 and RX 470 graphic cards have been introduced to the world nearly two months back by AMD CEO Lisa Su during E3 2016. The final members of the 14-nm AMD Polaris GPU family cater to power-efficient 1080 gaming and e-sports performance.
AMD's newly launched Radeon RX 460 and RX 470 bring high-end gaming to the masses. The budget GPUs aim to bridge the gap between high-performance and affordable gaming cards.
Both the RX 460 and RX 470 are based on the Polaris architecture. Both AMD Radeon RX cards have just been launched.
The Radeon RX 470 was the first to arrive on the market, on August 4. The card has been designed to be a high-performance 1080p gaming card.
According to PC World, with anti-aliasing enabled in several of today's top-end games, including "Rise of the Tomb Rider," "Witcher 3," "Fallout 4," "Call of Duty: Black Ops III," "Far Cry Primal" and more, the Radeon RX 470 can hit 60 frames per second. For a graphics card cheaper than $200, this performance is very impressive.
The RX 470 comes with 4 GB of onboard GDDR5 memory working on a 256-bit bus. The card's clock speed is 1,206 MHz.
The RX 470 has the same amount of ROPs as the RX 460 but 256 fewer stream processors, four fewer compute units and 16 fewer texture units. The RX 460 card's performance is very close to the RX 480's level, but the RX 470 is not virtual reality-capable.
According to the benchmarking specialized website GFXBench, the Radeon RX 470 is able to achieve 3,538 frames at 59.9 FPS in the onscreen high-level test Car Chase. The same card touches an impressive 7,706 frames at 130.4 Fps in the offscreen Car Chase test.
AMD's other new card: the RX 460 has just launched Monday, August 8. The AMD Radeon RX 460 consumes less power than 75 W, using the motherboard's PCI-E slot with no need for an addition of a 6-pin or 8-pin power connector. The AMD GPU is a rival to Nvidia's popular GTX 750 Ti.
The Radeon RX 460 is able to deliver 1.2x to 1.3x more performance than the older Radeon R7 260X across many multiplayer e-sports games. That performance enables AMD to push the RX 460 as a low-cost option for e-sports games. The newest AMD GPU performs at 60 fps or higher at 1080p resolution in games such as "Counter-Strike," "Overwatch," "Global Offensive," League of Legends," "Team Fortress 2," Dota 2," "Heroes of the Storm," "Rocket League" and "World of Warships."
According to a benchmark published by GFXBench, in the high-level test Car Chase, the Radeon RX 460 has achieved a performance of 1,490 frames onscreen at 25.2 FPS and 5,959 frames offscreen at 100.8 FPS.
