Same shitty cooler, bragging about +10Mhz OC, and the color changed from black to platinum = Premium price. I would just like to call them out on their bullshit, especially, Ed from Sapphire who criticized Nvidia on their FE pricing. To be frank, at least Nvidia could back their FE pricing with an adequate cooling giving the fact that it's cooling at chip at considerably higher clocks. Their Platinum edition can't even maintain the +10Mhz OC, LOL.
Ed, what's good?
Meh, Elaborate how NVidia's cards that are FE has good cooling. I just think NVidia cards cool better, but I think we can agree that the Platnium edition is crap like the Founder's edition.
The Platinum Edition makes FE look like value when considering the build quality. Granted it's only a $20 price hike, but you might as well get a RX 480 so their pricing doesn't make the slightest sense. Plus, the 470 is meant to be a budget card so a price hike for a shitty ref. cooler is asinine. You might as well get a AIB 470 or better yet, a 4gb RX 480.
Oh, had no idea about the build quality of either card.
It's a $180 card...
The Sapphire RX 470 100407 is the cheapest card on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202230
How is this a founder's edition?
Hey, should I get the XFX single fan card for $200 or should I go stock 480, their performance is near identical
Do you mean XFX 470 vs Reference RX 480 4gb ver.?
Yes.
Their website does not mention it being anything special. No word saying "platinum edition".
http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=0582294D-5A90-4EF0-B5E1-5EDC1C3ACBE1&lang=en
And to be fair, it is clocked higher:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/catapage_pd.asp?cataid=306&lang=en
Watching the video now. Is that really painted or a metal plate? The edges look like lasercut metal.
Cooler unscrewed. For 200€, that would make for a nice card.
10MHz? 1216 - 1143 = 73
Just let Sapphire do their thing, try new stuff. I would save the extra money and get a Sapphire Nitro RX480 anyway but hey! Maybe someone wants to run two of these in CF with watercooling. Who knows?
And again: Where is the word "platinum edition"? I can not find it!
Last point to make:
It's a tough call, XFX 470 is going to run cooler and quieter while the 480 4gb Ref. is going to be hotter and less to maintain the clock speeds. It depends on your priorities.
I think cooler and quieter will be a better route for my next build, the XFX card it is.
First, I like to see myself how close the RX 470 performs against the R9 390 for performance, heat, I TDP (although with 120W, that won't be an issue), etc. However, my computer has an OEM version of Windows 7, is it possible to swap Graphic Cards out so I can test it?
Just save 20-30$ extra and get aftermarket 480... I don't really see the issue here... 470 or 480? Save some extra and get decent 480...
If you are really tight on the budget, then get the 470 and pump some slight juice into it and you basically have the 480 performance...
A reference design selling for the same price as custom AIBs and the only difference between a stock cooler is a backplate and a different color scheme, sounds an awful lot like a piss poor attempt at a Founder's Edition.
You know founders Eddition is the same thing, just more expensive? So the cheap option is piss poor attempt at absolutely the same thing, that is way more expensive?
I do not see a point in this card either, but am I making noise about it?
The reference RX480 is the same price. So this card makes even less sense to buy.
(Read with creepy voice)
Founders Edition... Do you want me to write a wall of text about how this little thing is not even remotly close to being a "Founders Edition Overpriced Reference card"? Do you want that?
Don't care what you do on your free time.
I already went with the RX 470 for $199, pretty much near identical performance 480 reference so I ain't losing much, plus this card looks like it won't have trouble fitting in a Mini-ITX case, better not run at over 80 C though..
Depending on the itx case... But no... Should not reach 80...
