Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 OC Graphics Card Review

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Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 OC Graphics Card Review

 

Not so long ago, Sapphire unveiled the Nitro+ RX 480 OC

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 graphics card which allowed AMD's flagship Polaris 10 core to

perform to its maximum potential. This is due to the company's

exceptional cooling solution which managed to tame the GPU's thermal

loads and in turn, ensured the boost clock didn't plummet in a wide

range of demanding games. Unfortunately, AMD's relatively simplistic

reference cooling design doesn't contain any heat-pipes and relies on

a single aluminium heatsink with a copper base. This was inadequate

for overclocking and after speaking to AMD, they acknowledged it could

have been engineered better. While the RX 480 offers outstanding value

for money and targets the mainstream demographic, the price point

might still be too high for certain consumers on a tight budget or

those considering PC gaming for the first time. Thankfully, the RX 470

can dispel those concerns and is a slightly scaled back version of

the RX 480. This particular configuration is capable of up to 4.9

TFLOP/s peak performance, has 32 compute units, 2048 stream processors

all within a very respectable 150-watt TDP on models sporting an 8-pin

connector.

 

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