AMD is going after the mainstream market harder than NVIDIA. The company has announced a plethora of GPUs on both side of the price spectrum. For the lower end, they have the RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards that offer premium performance without putting too much of a dent on the wallet.
The Radeon RX 470 is the more powerful of the two. It has 32 CUs (Compute Units), 2048 stream processors, 1206/926 MHz clock speeds (boost/base) and offers up to 4.9 TeraFLOPs performance. It also offers 1650 MHz memory clock speed, 211 GB/s memory bandwidth and comes with either 4GB or 8 GB GDDR5 of RAM. It consumes around 120 W of power and offers 1080p Full HD at 60 frames per second. It is based on the Polaris 10 architecture
Venture Beat added that it will handle games like "Rocket League," "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" and "Overwatch" at high settings with no problem at all. While the company claims that it can handle visually demanding games with no sweat at all, like "The Witcher 3," "Grand Theft Auto V" and "Rise of the Tomb Raider."
The Radeon RX 460, on the other hand, is a Polaris 11 GPU which offers 14 CUs, 896 stream processors, a 1200/1090 MHz clock speeds (boost/base), and gives a peak performance of up to 2.2 TeraFLOPS. Memory clock speed is pegged at 1750 MHz, a 112 GB/s memory bandwidth, a 128 bit interface and is available in 2GB or 4 GB GDDR5 of RAM configuration. It consumes less power than its 470 sibling, less than 75 W.
Both cards are fourth-gen cards based on the 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, and have a single port for HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4 and DL-DVI-I connections, Anand Tech reported.
The AMD Radeon RX 470 launches on Aug. 4 for US$149 (4GB) and US$179 (8GB), while the RX 460 will be available by Aug. 8 for US$99 (2GB) and US$199 (4GB).
