AMD RX 470 & RX 460 Sapphire Custom Cards Pictured - Launching At The End Of The Month

More than leaks concerning AMD's upcoming RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards accept surfaced as of late including photos, specs & benchmarks. Rumor has information technology that the RX 470 and RX 460 will be bachelor at the end of the calendar month so it doesn't come as a surprise to see even more than info surface online in the upcoming days. The latest leak from China, courtesy of VCZ, is one of the more than significant all the same, so let's go straight into it.

The specific graphics card models in question are the Sapphire RX 470 Platinum and the Sapphire RX 460 Nitro. The RX 470 Platinum features a reference designed PCB and cooler. Nonetheless, Sapphire has equipped the card with a custom backplate and tweaked the color scheme of the libation's shroud. Instead of the archetype AMD Radeon cherry and black the RX 470 Platinum from Sapphire features a black and argent wait, hence the name.

Sapphire Elevates AMD'southward Reference RX 470 With Its Platinum Edition

The reference designed RX 470 PCB is very like to that of the RX 480. The principal differentiator is that the 150W RX 480 features a vi+1 stage blueprint, while the RX 470 with its more frugal 110W power contour features a 4+1 phase pattern and a single 6-pin power connector. The RX 470 comes with the same array of brandish connections that we've seen with the RX 480. Which include a single HDMI connnection and three DisplayPort connections.

The RX 470 will come in ii variants featuring 8GB and 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The bill of fare will exist priced at $179 and $149 respectively for the 8GB and 4GB models. Both variants feature the same Polaris 10 Pro GPU with 2048 GCN 4.0 stream processors and a 256bit memory interface.

Sapphire RX 460 Launching In 4GB & 2GB Configurations

The card pictured higher up is a custom pattern of the RX 460 from Sapphire. The card features the Polaris xi Pro GPU with 896 GCN 4.0 stream processors and a 128bit memory interface. This is AMD'southward power sipping entry level Radeon RX 400 series graphics card with a TDP below 75 watts. The 460 will come up in 4GB and 2GB configurations. In terms of functioning the RX 460 is expected to deliver seventy-100% more operation compared to the R7 260X that information technology'southward replacing.

AMD RX 460 Polaris 11 Pro GPU AMD Radeon RX 460 Block Diagram - Polaris 11 Pro GPU

Thanks to its economical ability contour the reference designed RX 460 doesn't come with any external power connectors, very much like Nvidia's GTX 750 Ti. Although nosotros could see Add-in-Board partners launch custom RX 460 equipped with 6-pivot PCIE power connectors to aggrandize the card'south overclocking headroom. The RX 460 is expected to launch at the stop of the month for $99.

The Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 volition address different segments in the markets. The RX 480 is positioned as the most affordable premium VR and 1440p gaming graphics carte. On the other manus, AMD is targeting what it calls "high definition" gaming with the Radeon RX 470. What that basically means is 60 FPS 1080p. The Radeon RX 460 which is the smallest member of the Polaris family that we've seen nonetheless, we're told is geared towards MOBAs such every bit League of Legends.

AMD RX 400 Serial Specifications

Graphics Card Name	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 460
Graphics Core	Polaris ten XT	Polaris 10 Pro	Polaris 11
Process Node	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Boost Clock	1266Mhz	1206Mhz	1200Mhz
Peak Compute	five.83 TFLOPs	iv.9 TFLOPs	2.2 TFLOPs
Memory	four/8 GB GDDR5	4/8 GB GDDR5	two/4 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	256-scrap	256-bit	128-bit
Memory Speed	8 GHz	vi.six GHz	seven GHz
Memory Bandwidth	256 GB/s	211 GB/s	112 GB/south
Ability	150W	120W	75W
MSRP	$199 (four GB) $239 (8 GB)	$179 (4 GB)	$109 (2 GB)