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how would you like to win your very own Thermaltake Corp III in partnership with Thermaltake I'm giving away three of these beautiful awesome cases to enter sign up at our former hardware and box comm post a picture of your current rig your specs and quickly tell me what you want to do with the core p3 good luck and enjoy the video the time has come to benchmark the new Radian rx4 70 and benchmark être shell for those of you expecting some twenty plus games tested I've got to apologize you'll have to stand off a dozen this time around unfortunately I only found out the RX 470 was incoming late last week in my sample arrived less than 24 hours before the deadline the good news though was because I did have almost a week's notice that the RX 470 was being released today I was able to do a bit of planning which resulted in quite a bit of pre testing the key part of the plan was to change my test system for these lower end / mid-range graphics cards to something that would closer reflect the setups those shopping for a sub $200 GPU would be running this meant dumping the overclocked core i7 6700 K system for a more affordable core i3 rig in the end I went with a core i3 6100 T which is roughly three times cheaper than the 6700 K a deliberately Optive the low voltage model as it comes clocked to just 3.2 gigahertz will better reflect the performance of locked processors typically graphics cards benchmarked using high-end rigs to avoid system bottlenecks and this makes a lot of sense that said for this review I wanted to try doing things a little different to the norm after all you're going to see khalasar x4 70 reviews go live alongside mine and the vast majority will no doubt feature a core i7 test rig additionally the response to my video where I tested the RX 480 and gtx 1060 on six-year-old AMD and intel computers was very well received so with almost wake up my sleeve i took 9 graphics cards in the sub $300 price range and tested them at 1080p that doesn't new and relatively new triple-a titles now that we have the RX 470 on hand will be interesting to see how it compares for more information regarding the RX 470 please check out the AMD radeon RX 460 and RX 470 preview video I put together last week enough video I speculated the RX 470 would cost 180 dollars despite almost all news reports claiming a $150 price quite a few of you guys failed the RX 470 would come in at $150 but frankly I couldn't see it happening I'm not expecting this new GPU to be much slower than the rx 480 and 150 dollars the RX 470 wouldn't just be the buy of the year would also have heavily cannibalize the our X 480 sales the $180 us MSRP means down under the RX 470 should cost around 240 dollars based on a rough currency conversion that said the cheapest price the RX for it is being advertised for in Australia is 360 dollars while you still have to pay four hundred and forty dollars to find one in stock based on that information I expect the cheapest RX 470 will cost us Aziz around 320 bucks which is roughly what I paid a few days ago for the i-93 ATX used for comparison in this video all graphics cards tested a reference models and those that aren't have had their BIOS reflash to meet the reference clock speeds AMD provided the a cor x4 70 Strix Edition for review which does feature a decent factory overclock so for the purposes of this review I've down clocked the Asus card to the reference clock frequencies to keep the results fair for that reason I haven't included overclocking in this video and instead at a later date I'll do a full review of this tricks edition to provide factory and custom overclocking results ok so that gets the important stuff out of the way let's get to the results shall we will begin our benchmarks with Batman Arkham Knight here you can see the 470 managed to healthy 85 FPS meaning it was within 7% of its bigger brother the RX 480 this is one of the few titles to where the RX 4 idea was ahead of the 1060 and as a result the 470 was within 6 percent of the Nvidia card compared to the 380 acts of the previous generation we're now looking at a card that's 10 FPS faster again the 470 performed extremely well this time in black ops 3 here it was good for 92 fps making it just 3 FPS shy of the 480 this time however the 1060 was more true to its average relative performance and was 12% faster at 105 fps this is the game with a 470 layers biggest beating on the 380 acts of yesteryear trouncing it by 23% our doom tests were conducted using Vulcan and here the four seventies performance was rather impressive was able to eclipse the much more expensive gtx 1060 by 4 FPS but was 15% behind the RX 480 and the 390 this time the 380 acts again trailed behind this time by 20% next up was Far Cry primal and here the 470 was within three frames the 480 under these conditions which was obvious pretty negligible whatsoever 15% slower than the 1060 although both cars provided very smooth gaming experiences in shadow of Mordor the 480 was able to extend its lead again this time out of 14 percent the 1060 was also 18 FPS ahead meaning the 470 was 20% slower in Mirror's Edge catalyst on the medium quality setting is were able to extract a smooth 74 FPS on the RX 470 this was quite close to the performance of the 480 which was only for FPS ahead on 78 the 1060 led the pack again and this time the 470 was 21% slower the stronger cards in our testing pack were possibly reaching a CPU bottleneck here and overwatch on the ultra quality setting here the 1060 480 and for 70 well within 4 frames of each other and the 380 X was 7% behind the 470 specifically we tested rise of the Tomb Raider in DirectX 12 with the very high quality settings the 470 managed to smooth 84 FPS which was great to see this was 15% faster than 380 X and temps and behind the our X 480 Star Wars Battlefront was an interesting one here the top three cards all seem to hit the same bottleneck at 107 fps and the 470 was 18% behind on 88 fps the 380 X though was even further behind at 79 in the division the 470 was slightly faster than the much more power hungry r9 390 with 68f yes it was 12% slower than his bigger brother from the same generation and 14% behind the mid-range and more expensive 1060 from the green team The Witcher 3 was one of the games where the 470 was quite close to the 480 this time to 7% behind was also in the 11% slower than the 1060 which is a good showing compared with some of the last generations cards it smoked the 1060 by 50% and was 17 percent faster than 380 X this time I tested total war Warhammer and DirectX 12 and the i9 390 was king of the hill the margins weren't huge though on the 470 fell only 2 FPS behind the RX 480 and 3 FPS behind the 1060 the 380 and 380 X were all in the same ballpark too though with 59 and 60 FPS respectively the total system power consumption on average over 20 minutes of gameplay at 1080p was a relatively low 201 watts this was 17 watts less than the R X 480 reference card which seems about spot-on based on the performance as mentioned the RX 470 we're using here is of the asus strix variety whereas the RX 480 is only the honestly pretty poorly cooled reference card the results speak for themselves a Sioux seemed to have devised a pretty damn effective cooler and as you can see after 20 minutes of gameplay it was still sitting at a comparatively icy cool 59 degrees this is compared to a coffee brewing 81 degrees from the 480 reference card and 71 degrees from the GTX 1060 founders edition interesting results for sure but I've got to say that they're quite in line with what I was expecting based on the specifications we had before I finally got the card and was able to test it the power consumption is low but also in line with the performance scene the temperatures maintained by the Strix card are actually really impressive now let's jump into the part of the review I personally find most interesting and useful the direct card comparisons in a direct comparison with the rx 380 here you can see it was on average 20% faster at 1080p there's quite a spread of results they were ranging quite steadily from 5% all the way up to 35% I was really interested to see how the 380 x and 4 70 stacked up was there two cards from different generations that feature the exact same core configuration as you can see the new polaris card is 13% faster on average through our dozen games tested and again there's quite a spread of results in our total war DirectX 12 test the cards were only separated by 2% whereas in black ops 3 the 470 was able to pull away by 23% obviously this is another comparison that I'm most likely you are very interested to see compared directly to the rx 480 reference card the 470 was an average on the APUs and slower as I thought it might be due to our testing conditions there are a couple of games or assistant bottleneck was present this is why overwatch for instance was within 1% this 8% average however is why I knew this card wouldn't be coming in at a price as low as 150 u.s. dollars the new rx 470 put a fair beating on the gtx 960 and at its closest it was still 19% ahead on average though it was a whopping 42 percent faster meaning the 470 would be a significant upgrade for gtx 960 users these cards are really in totally different price categories but it was interesting to see that in a number of titles the difference when paired with the lower end processor was quite small in a third of our games tested the RX 470 was only 6 percent slower or less and in the case of doom running in Vulcan was actually faster this meant that overall the average was 12% slower and the largest margin was in rise of the Tomb Raider whether 470 was 24% slower than the 1060 AMD of pitching the rx force is the perfect 1080p gaming solution and having seen an average of 88 fps over our 12 games tested I'd have to agree coming into the class per frame just two dollars and five cents the RX 470 is now the new cost per frame King and at 1080p it looks like there's no better buy these figures might look slightly different with a higher-end CPU as in a couple of games there was a system bottleneck present but these instances were kind of insignificant because performance was already well over 100 FPS the 380 acts was next best in terms of cost per frame but the new 470 still wiped the floor with the saving of 29 cents per frame so unless availability for the 470 is shocking you use a high refresh rate monitor or there's a large price discrepancy in your region for 1080p gaming it seems like there'll be no better choice than AMD's new rx 470 what do you guys think let me know in the comments I'm your host Matt as always and I'll see you guys next time youtubers like me depend on your support to continue improving the quality and content of our videos to support the channel directly consider becoming a patron to also get access to a heap of cool rewards and exclusive giveaways also don't forget you can check prices 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