The ASUS laptop containing an AMD Radeon R6, not the Radeon RX 480M, is displayed (Photo : YouTube / Andrew Tran)
Budget is the name of the game with AMD's newly revealed Radeon RX 470 plus the company has also teased an RX 480M mobile solution for laptops.
When the Radeon RX 480 was revealed during the Computex 2016 event, viewers were shocked to learn that it can perform better than the NVIDIA GTX 1080 if two Polaris 10 cards were used for less than $500. Now, AMD has revealed the performance benchmarks of the Radeon RX 470 card.
NVIDIA has taken the top spot in terms of raw GPU power with their GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 but those are more suited for PC gamers that do not mind spending hundreds of bucks for 1440p or 4K gaming. AMD might actually take the mainstream mid-end market with their new cards performing better than the last generation's most expensive cards.
The company has sent out press decks to several media publications revealing the performance of their newest card. AMD used an i7-5960x processor for the test machine running the Radeon RX 470 which scored an impressive 9090 at the 3DMark FireStrike 1080p benchmark, TechFrag has learned.
For most gamers, this is already good news. Not everyone has a 1440p ready for gaming as most 1080p monitors with 144hz refresh rates are still expensive. The new Polaris 10 card will be a good bet for their gaming needs.
To put the speed of the 470 in contrast, the previous generation's R9 270X scored 5787 in the same benchmark test. It also managed to get 46 frames per second in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark compared with the latter's 28.1 frames per second.
Another big detail included in the AMD press deck is the new mobile solution graphics card. AMD has mentioned a Radeon RX 480M that will be powered by the Polaris 11 instead of the desktop counterpart's Polaris 10, Digital Trends reported.
Other specs of the new laptop card include 16 compute units and 35W for the thermal envelope. It was tested with a laptop powered by an Intel Core i7-4600M.
The release dates for the Radeon RX 470 and the RX 480M have not been revealed yet. AMD will still unveil the full specifications and announce a final price tag which is expected to be around $150 while the mobile card will make laptops even cheaper.
