Actual news on RX 470/460?

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http://videocardz.com/62117/amd-confirms-radeon-rx-470-and-rx-460-specifications

According to this article, which I would take with a grain of salt, the RX 470 is confirmed to be released by the end of this month, the release of the RX 460 is unknown, probably the end of August. This card's performance, based on the spec sheets put's the AMD RX 470 so close to the RX 480, however, the FireStrike score may tell us a different story, which may prevent it from being the Price/Performance King.

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The RX 470 is placed right under the R9 290 and GTX 970, but places it close to where an OC 470 could beat out a Stock 970, but this is the problem, there was also a benchmark with FireStrike that putted the 480 near GTX 980 levels, but real world performance said otherwise. At the same time, it's also placed close to RX 480 in performance on the spec sheet, so god knows how powerful this card is gonna be.

I was more hyped for this card than the RX 480 and 460, but I won't give my hopes up on it just yet, this would be a very great card to put in a laptop since it only uses 110W if it stays cool decently. Sounds like a lot, but a GTX 980 only uses 160W, didn't stop them from having a desktop grade GPU in a laptop. Hopefully NVidia can spice it up with the GTX 1050 before I buy some computer parts (won't be until Zen comes out)

As far as the RX 460 goes, I am pretty far from hyped on this card, the performance gap is said to be way too big to be worth saving $50, bottom line, the RX 470 would be a better buy, even if it winds up performing only like an R9 380. I am sure this will be a great card for a laptop, a shame that AMD wants to use the same chipset to make the RX M480 the same as an RX 460 with 2 extra CU's (RX M480 having 16 CU's, RX 460 apparently has only 14 CU's) when the RX M480 could have been an RX 470 and save the RX M490 for a mobile Vega card. Would help them compete with NVidia with laptops a little bit better. This GPU is great if you have an ultra-small computer too probably, better than Intel HD graphics or Iris graphics. Or if ya gonna Crossfire with a Zen APU perhaps. Other than that, the GPU doesn't excite me, not cause it's poor performance, but it's not good for the money compared to their higher offerings at all.

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But seriously firestrike benchmarks don't always line up with performance. It's all about the game optimization for that gpu.

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This meme. Yes, we need benchmarks to determine real time performance, I hope the RX 470 get's decent optimizations (like the RX 480 did).

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It'll probably be right around the 380 or 380X

with the 460 replacing the 370, except at like 50W with passively cooled versions

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Htpc hype

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Most likely, although I can't help but think of how close AMD put the RX 470 to the RX 480 in terms of the numbers that makes me think it's between a R9 380X and GTX 970,
http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-470-rx-460-reference-models/
that hyped me up a bit more than it should. We will have to wait until benchmarks to see, wouldn't be surprised if it did perform only like an R9 380 after the hype train on the RX 480 crashed when people claimed it to be equal to a GTX 980 in performance, which would still be somewhat impressive, but not as amazing as I was hoping it be.

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Really though. I'd consider putting a 460 in a steam box that's primarially for streaming. That said, if I were to buy a discrete GPU, I'd probably go for a 480 depending on if I can find one with a quiet cooler. (looking at you ASUS)

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I would think Integrated Graphics these days are good enough for that kind of stuff, unless you get a CPU without a iGPU. For gaming at 720p Low settings, got playable framerates (30+ FPS) playing games (not streaming) on Intel HD 4400, of course, forget playing Witcher 3 on that.

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Yeah. that was kind of my point. no point in streaming if you have a 480 on anything that's not 4k.

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The specs look good. For $150 you get twice the performance of the R9 370. It seems like a perfect little 1080p card. Nothing more and nothing less. But no benchmarks = no hype.

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Meh, FireStrike benchmarks don't really mean anything in terms of real world performance, it is a synthetic benchmark after all. It's only three days till release and we haven't seen anything solid, it's like not a whole lot give much of a damn for the 470/460. Maybe this is because of the 480 hype.

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The 470's specs being near identical to the 480 for $50 cheaper isn't as impressive? I feel like something is missing that may gimp the card as far as the specs go. 460 on the other hand, not even 2xCF 460 is as good as single 470.

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Well it's definitely less powerful and probably not optimal for VR which is a selling point that costs.

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Maybe it will be ideal if you can run 2 cards in CF since AMD kind of wanted to optimize dual GPU for VR. Although until then, you should probably go single card like the RX 480/GTX 1060 or higher.