Hot on the heels of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1050 Ti launch, AMD fired off an elaborate press-deck explaining why consumers should choose its $169 Radeon RX 470 graphics card over the $139 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti it announced last Tuesday (18/10), which is due for market launch a week later (25/10). The presentation begins explaining that the RX 470 is better equipped to offer above 60 fps on all of today’s games at 1080p (Full HD) resolution, with anti-aliasing enabled.
Later down the presentation, AMD alleges that NVIDIA “Pascal” architecture lacks asynchronous compute feature. There are already games that take advantage of it. AMD also claims that its “Polaris” based GPUs RX 480, RX 470, and RX 460, will be faster than competing GTX 1060, GTX 1050 Ti, and GTX 750 Ti at “Battlefield 1” with its DirectX 12 renderer. The presentation ends with a refresher of the company’s current product-stack, and how it measures up to NVIDIA’s offerings across the competitive landscape. Turns out there is indeed a big price/performance gap between the RX 460 and RX 470, just waiting to be filled.
The Radeon RX 470, priced $30 above the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, features double the memory bus width, translating into double the memory bandwidth. Memory bandwidth comes in handy with anti-aliasing, mega-textures, and in situations where the GPU needs to quickly move things in and out of its memory.
