Radeon RX 570 detected as Radeon RX 470

[garrettAWESOMEja]

Hello,

 

I just bought 2 used Radeon RX 570 graphics cards from Geeks.com. I installed the graphics card along with the drivers from AMD’s website. The graphics card is running quite well, but when I started up Elite Dangerous it told me my adapter was a Radeon RX 470. I then checked windows with the dxdiag and it too said my graphic card was the RX470, along with the AMD software detecting it as the 470.  

 

The graphics card says RX-570DE PA6050. Looking at the phisical form it looks like the RX 470 with one fan on the left of the card, looking at its face. While the RX 570 has two fans from the AMD website. 

 

I tried both graphics cards and they are both detected as RX 470. Did I actually get an RX 570 or did I receive a RX 470? Or do I have the wrong drivers for the RX 570 cards?

 

The store is closed at the moment so I can’t ask them about the 2 products till tomorrow. 

 

I have been searching the internet for a while and haven’t found much. Any information would be helpful. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

the rx470 and the rx570 are the same cards, only difference is the clock speed and some low power settings. You can flash it to a 570 if you want, but it won't perform any different. 

[garrettAWESOMEja]

Thanks for the quick reply. So I did receive rx570 cards? 

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

9 minutes ago, garrettAWESOMEja said:

Thanks for the quick reply. So I did receive rx570 cards? 

Probably but they perform the same anyway so does it really matter?
 

[garrettAWESOMEja]

15 minutes ago, orbitalbuzzsaw said:

Probably but they perform the same anyway so does it really matter?
 

I guess not. I just want to be sure I’m not getting ripped off. But since the cards are almost the same I’ll probably stick with it either way. 

[Streetguru]

29 minutes ago, garrettAWESOMEja said:

Thanks for the quick reply. So I did receive rx570 cards? 

Pretty sure they never made reference RX 570s outside of OEM PCs, really doesn't matter as they are basically the same chip.

[Jurrunio]

Overclock them. If you can get 1400Mhz, they are almost certainly RX 570s

[garrettAWESOMEja]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Overclock them. If you can get 1400Mhz, they are almost certainly RX 570s

I’ll try that and see if I can get 1400 MHz

[garrettAWESOMEja]

I got it to detect as RX 570. 

 

Initially I used the AMD software to detect the card and it must have downloaded the 470 drivers.

 

so I deleted the drivers and installed the 570 drivers manually and it is now detected as the RX 570.

[O9B0666]

6 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

the rx470 and the rx570 are the same cards, only difference is the clock speed and some low power settings. You can flash it to a 570 if you want, but it won't perform any different. 

exactly, just hopefully yours are the 8gb...
you said you have 2, i do too the 4g ones and am pleased with them. in single mode i oc it too 1350/1825 and runs everything I PLAY fine, with both in i havent had a game I PLAY i couldnt run at ultra.

[Peskanova]

I think they flashed to 470 because its easy to mine with 400 series. I have a 480 8gb and I think the main difference between 400 and 500 series is better power management

[O9B0666]

6 hours ago, garrettAWESOMEja said:

I’ll try that and see if I can get 1400 MHz

report back here if you get 1400. I can get as high as 1380 but can only bench em as high as 1350 for some reason. The memory, no matter where i puit it i dont notice a difference either.

[samcool55]

Memory should cause the biggest performance impact.

However! Depending what VRAM you have, overclocking the memory messes up the timings and cause performance to drop instead of increasing.

 

In my personal experience, samsung VRAM overclocks very nicely. Everything else, not worth the effort.

[Onii-Chan on PC]

@garrettAWESOMEjahey man, do you still have this GPU, and if so could you send me the origina bios for it. I have this same card that i bought bricked and i fixed it by flashing a new bios, but the card runs way too hot and way too loud. ive been trying to find someone with this card to see if they could send me the bios for it