AMD PowerColor Radeon RX 470 Red Devil 4GB Review: A Great Option For Gamers Available At Affordable Price

If you are a gamer, a powerful GPU is the prominent requirement but sometimes cost also matters. The new AMD GPU comes at a decent price but what about the gaming performance, let's find out.

The Radeon RX 470 uses ‘binned’ Polaris 10 chips. It comes pre-overclocked to 1,270MHz with 1,750MHz memory. It has a dual-fan design with nine blades on each. The GPU has a good design with a new cooler, OC mode and added a back-plate to it. It is one of the good GPUs that delivers good performance and looks cool.

You can expand your gaming field with the card as it supports multiple displays. MAD’s unified graphics processing and compute cores improves the overall performance and efficiency. It also supports the latest stereoscopic 3D content and display technologies enabling you to play 3D games, watch Blu-ray 3D videos, and edit 3D photos on your 3D Monitors, TV, or projector.

It is equipped with advanced GDDR5 memory that offers the highest memory bandwidth of any memory technology today. The card supports the VR so you can also enjoy games using your VR headset. In terms of power consumption, our test system reached a peak power draw of 236W when ustilising the GPU at the fullest. This is likely due to the overclocking settings applied by PowerColour.

We tested the GPU on our test bed (Intel Pentium Processor G3420 (3M Cache, 3.20 GHz) CPU on Asus motherboard, 4 GB DDR3 Zion RAM, Hitachi 500GB SATA HDD, Phillips LED monitor running on Windows 7 OS). The graphics card is capable enough to handle any graphic intensive game. To test the performance we played some games on it, including Thief, Tomb Raider, NFS, etc. This handles all the games easily and there was no lag in the performance. We also used a VR handset to check its VR ability and here as well it easily manages the virtual game.