R9 470 to be only 5% slower than the 970

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

Source: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/radeon-rx-470-benchmarks.html

 

 

In a PDF that AMD released, here is a footnote...

Quote

Polaris 10 2.8x performance per watt:  Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of May 10, 2016 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 470 (110w) and AMD Radeon™ R9 270X (180w),ona test systemcomprising i7 5960X @ 3.0 GHz 16GB memory, AMD Radeon Software driver 16.20 and Windows 10.. Using 3DMark Fire Strike preset 1080p the scores were 9090 and 5787 respectively. Using Ashes ofthe Singularity 1080P High, the scores were 46 fps and 28.1 fps respectively. Using Hitman 1080p High, the scores were 60 fpsand 27.6 fps respectively. Using Overwatch1080p Max settings, the scoreswere 121 fps and 76 fps respectively. Using Performance/Board power, the resulting average across the 4 different titles was a perf per watt of 2.8X vs the Radeon R9 270X. Test results are not average andmay vary.   

Here are the benchmarks

 

Seems like AMD is getting really aggressive on their GPU side but their CPU's still seem to have nothing.

If the RX 480 is to be $199 USD than the RX 470 should be cheaper. If AMD can bring 970 like performance for like under $150 I think AMD should have really interesting offerings for their RX 490 and RX 490X which will theoretically beat out the GTX 1080 AND GTX 1070 at a much cheap affordable cost.

 

Any thoughts people?

[PlayStation 2]

RX 470's more than likely gonna hit at an MSRP of $149.99 as the R7 370 and R9 270 did.

[Starelementpoke]

4 minutes ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

Source: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/radeon-rx-470-benchmarks.html

 

 

In a PDF that AMD released, here is a footnote...

Here are the benchmarks

 

Seems like AMD is getting really aggressive on their GPU side but their CPU's still seem to have nothing.

If the RX 480 is to be $199 USD than the RX 470 should be cheaper. If AMD can bring 970 like performance for like under $150 I think AMD should have really interesting offerings for their RX 490 and RX 490X which will theoretically beat out the GTX 1080 AND GTX 1070 at a much cheap affordable cost.

 

Any thoughts people?

For that cheap? Damn good deal. And shouldn't this be under tech news?

[Big-G]

Still no competition at the top... o well...

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

3 hours ago, Starelementpoke said:

For that cheap? Damn good deal. And shouldn't this be under tech news?

Yes tech news...

 

A mod will move it at some point lel

3 hours ago, GidonsClaw said:

Still no competition at the top... o well...

There is going to be the RX 490 later on in the year

[Starelementpoke]

2 minutes ago, GidonsClaw said:

Still no competition at the top... o well...

To be fair, they never claimed it was going to be. And that's supposedly VEGA.

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

3 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

RX 470's more than likely gonna hit at an MSRP of $149.99 as the R7 370 and R9 270 did.

Does the 1 cent really bother you that much m9?

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

Does the 1 cent really bother you that much m9?

lolno

Shit like that usually retails for $[price]9.99

[Big-G]

1 minute ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

There is going to be the RX 490 later on in the year

Like the 1080Ti or Pascal Titian? I'll believe it when I see it...

 

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

To be fair, they never claimed it was going to be. And that's supposedly VEGA.

To be unfair... they benched against a 1080... even gimping it using alpha drivers to make it look bad also...

[Starelementpoke]

2 minutes ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

Does the 1 cent really bother you that much m9?

Eh, bothers me.

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

lolno

Shit like that usually retails for $[price]9.99

The whole xx9.99 is a weird paradigm in marketing that I'd rather went away. I'm more likely to remember a product's price when it says 150 than when it says 149.99

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

3 hours ago, Starelementpoke said:

Eh, bothers me.

 

3 hours ago, Energycore said:

The whole xx9.99 is a weird paradigm in marketing that I'd rather went away. I'm more likely to remember a product's price when it says 150 than when it says 149.99

Yes remember everyone, the RX 480 is going to be released for $199.99

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, TheAmazingCookieFromSquare said:

 

Yes remember everyone, the RX 480 is going to be released for $199.99

So many nines D=

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, GidonsClaw said:

Like the 1080Ti or Pascal Titian? I'll believe it when I see it...

 

To be unfair... they benched against a 1080... even gimping it using alpha drivers to make it look bad also...

There is supposed to be Vega 10 and Vega 11.

Vega 11 will most likely be RX 490 which will compete with GTX 1070/1080 and it will NOT have HBM memory (most likely).

Vega 10 will come much later and it will be Fury replacement and it should compete with GTX 1080ti and it should have HBM memory (because their slides says that VEGA will have HBM).

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, GidonsClaw said:

Like the 1080Ti or Pascal Titian? I'll believe it when I see it...

 

To be unfair... they benched against a 1080... even gimping it using alpha drivers to make it look bad also...

490x is suppose to be 1070, 1080 competition. And was it every actually confirmed whether there was foul play or not? Aside from AOTS being more AMD GPU friendly, I was under the impression that AOTS' procedural generation was still under scrutiny on whether or not it was the cause of the differences. Was there actually photo evidence of them using an Alpha driver for the 1080? Not that I doubt you, just missed a part of the whole fiasco.

[WereCat]

4 minutes ago, Energycore said:

The whole xx9.99 is a weird paradigm in marketing that I'd rather went away. I'm more likely to remember a product's price when it says 150 than when it says 149.99

Under three hundredth sounds better than three hundredth ($299.99).

[impure]

And when you factor in async compute it'll be even faster.

[Energycore]

2 minutes ago, impure said:

And when you factor in async compute it'll be even faster.

I hope DX12 adoption is quick so async gives us that sweet sweet utilization efficiency

[Energycore]

8 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Under three hundredth sounds better than three hundredth ($299.99).

Yes, but it's a lie. In retail, stores are likely to outright refuse to give you your penny back (or they won't have any), and even then the difference is so little. It's misleading marketing, which I guess is a redundant statement to make.

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Yes, but it's a lie. In retail, stores are likely to outright refuse to give you your penny back (or they won't have any), and even then the difference is so little. It's misleading marketing, which I guess is a redundant statement to make.

Lol.. where do you live that they refuse to give your penny back? In my country they do give it back always... unless you say it is fine.

[BuckGup]

20 minutes ago, GidonsClaw said:

Still no competition at the top... o well...

If you look at what cards normal people are buying and teens with low amount of money. You will see 280s, 750tis, 960s, and so on. 

[BuckGup]

7 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I hope DX12 adoption is quick so async gives us that sweet sweet utilization efficiency

The devs have to put in async and it is a pain. Unless AMD is paying them probably not going to happen

[Big-G]

10 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I hope DX12 adoption is quick so async gives us that sweet sweet utilization efficiency

Yes, to fix poor utilization in AMD GPU's...

[Starelementpoke]

3 minutes ago, GidonsClaw said:

Yes, to fix poor utilization in AMD GPU's...

Last I checked the 390 was doing marginally better than the 970. So was the 290/x in comparison to the 780/ti.

[STRMfrmXMN]

I have a feeling that people with older GPUs are suddenly going to see games completely unplayable when they spent $500 4 years ago while a $150 GPU will play 1440p reasonably... kinda weird to think that this generation of GPUs has just skyrocketed in capability but I think it's going to encourage companies to make "Crysis syndrome" games that are horribly un-optimized. Just a guess though.