Who bought/is buying a Radeon RX 470 or RX 460?

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escrow4

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An RX 460 is $10 more than a 950 over here. For medium-ish 1080p gaming, would it be sufficient? An R9 380 is an additional $10. I was thinking of spending a pile more but eh this launch is underwhelming and overpriced.
 
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escrow4 said:
An RX 460 is $10 more than a 950 over here. For medium-ish 1080p gaming, would it be sufficient? An R9 380 is an additional $10. I was thinking of spending a pile more but eh this launch is underwhelming and overpriced.
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r9 380 is a no brainer.The fact that RX460 is only $20 cheaper shows how much fail of a card that is.
 
VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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RX 470 sounds decent for 1080P gaming and video watching. Does it use a 6-pin PCI-E or an 8-pin (or dual 6-pin)?
 
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escrow4 said:
An RX 460 is $10 more than a 950 over here. For medium-ish 1080p gaming, would it be sufficient? An R9 380 is an additional $10. I was thinking of spending a pile more but eh this launch is underwhelming and overpriced.
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I would just wait for the 470 to become more easily available and prices to stabilize. To me it is a no-brainer over the 460 unless you absolutely have to have a card with no six pin.
 
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Worked on undervolting / overclocking the Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Platinum OC tonight. Best results I could achieve in the 3DMark Fire Strike Stress Test are below. Undervolting helped boost frequency by keeping power consumption and temperatures in check. Power limit of +10 seemed to work best when undervolting. Higher power limits would cause the card to become temperature limited within a few minutes and cause the frequency to decrease slightly as a result.

I chose 3500 RPM as the OC fan speed as noise is still tolerable for me at this level, but too annoying at higher RPMs.

Average stock frequency: 1004 MHz
Average OC frequency: 1162 MHz (15.7% increase)

Average stock FPS: 47.9
Average OC FPS: 54.7 (14.1% increase)

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Stock WattMan settings:
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OC WattMan settings:
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Here are the stock settings on my SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 470 100407NT+8GOCL. It's the only 470 that comes with the memory running at 2000 MHz out of the box.

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And what I decided on when tweaking and testing. It's not shown, but I went up to 2020 MHz on the memory, because beyond that I started losing FPS.

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richierich1212

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I didn't get to upload these pics from last week until now. I'm testing out the Red Devil 470 that I got for my kid to replace his 280x. Here's the card installed in my system:

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1080 blows any card away .....25 percent faster then 980 GTX Ti or no




This thread is about AMD 470 and 460 not an Nvidia 1080.


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poofyhairguy

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I just bought a 4GB 460 off of Jet.com. I need a GPU with a newer decode engine next year that can hook up to my 4K kitchen setup, but I decided to get the 4GB model (and the 460 overall over a GTX 950) because I plan to mine on it for a few months to cut down some of the overall costs before it gets used for what I bought it for.

Kinda excited to compare the MadVR performance on it vs the 480.
 
poofyhairguy

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And I bought a 470 today too after looking at some mining profitability calculators and realizing it's now or never for getting GPUs that pay for themselves. I considered Nvidia to have fun mining with Pascal but the prices for the 1060s have gone up somewhat- 3GB models with two fans often have a $20-30 premium.

It was between the Devil and MSI's 470 and so picked the devil because I am a sucker for a backplate. Can't wait to get it and compare it in MadVR and maybe try out their Linux decoding.
 
Sonikku

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Damn Poofy, with all the money you make buying tons of AMD cards one wonders if AMD might better not sell their GPUs and just run a mining farm operation.
 
poofyhairguy

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Sonikku said:
Damn Poofy, with all the money you make buying tons of AMD cards one wonders if AMD might better not sell their GPUs and just run a mining farm operation.
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Nah you have to be nimble with mining or you risk getting hosed, plus AMD has a penchant for missteps. They would still try to mine bitcoin or something stupid knowing them.

I am not really trying to make a profit myself, I am trying to get free or near free graphics cards. Out of my Polarises the 480 will be the only one to make me money outright because I got it so early and I forced it to mine back when it was more profitable to do so. But I was going to buy a 460 and a 470 within the next year and a half for my primary hobby of HTPCs and video playback (and my 1080p and 4K HTPCs respectively), so I decided to move those purchases up some so that way mining can mitigate the cost.

I will admit, I kinda dislike this Powercolor Devil card. It's gaudy and looks kinda old school in a bad way, and the fans are loud. I guess I have gotten spoiled by XFX and EVGA cards over the years.
 
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