Saturday, October 22nd 2016
AMD Cuts Prices of the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460
AMD's domination in the sub-$200 market is rattled with NVIDIA's introduction of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and the GTX 1050. In addition to sending out media flyers pointing out what makes its GPUs better consumer choices than NVIDIA's, the company cut prices of two key SKUs - Radeon RX 470 4GB, and Radeon RX 460.
Pricing of the Radeon RX 470 4 GB is cut down to $159.99, from its $169.99 launch price. This puts the SKU just $20 above the GTX 1050 Ti. For $20 more you get double the memory bandwidth and higher performance, says AMD. Price of the Radeon RX 460 2 GB is cut down to $99.99, from $109.99, making it $10 cheaper than the GTX 1050 (non-Ti). The GeForce GTX 1050 series goes on sale from the 25th October, 2016.
Source:
GamersNexus
Pricing of the Radeon RX 470 4 GB is cut down to $159.99, from its $169.99 launch price. This puts the SKU just $20 above the GTX 1050 Ti. For $20 more you get double the memory bandwidth and higher performance, says AMD. Price of the Radeon RX 460 2 GB is cut down to $99.99, from $109.99, making it $10 cheaper than the GTX 1050 (non-Ti). The GeForce GTX 1050 series goes on sale from the 25th October, 2016.
48 Comments on AMD Cuts Prices of the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460
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You also need to learn the difference between suggested prices and street prices. Yep, and even then, that single fan edition is $180 right now. If you drop it $10, that is still $170. All the other RX 470s start at $200, so this price drop might take them down to $190. At those prices, you're knocking at the door of GTX1060 territory(forget 1050Ti). If the 1050Ti launches at the $140 it's expected to, that's a $50 price gap to get a decent RX 470 and $60 to just go with a GTX 1060...
Early on I nabbed a 470 Nitro for the wife's rig...hoping she won't fuss to much cuz I'm researchin' premium aftermarket HSF units for my 480.
My usual strategy is the get a decent card from a top tier aib maker with a 2nd rate factory cooler for cheap(er) and put the difference towards a prem. HSF. That seemed to work ok for older gen cards (HD4000, 5000, 6000) but not so much now days...they seem to have gotten a lot more thorough with their binning. If you buy a current gen card with a crappy cooler...odds are the gpu will have crap headroom and/or will be a total turd for OCing. I'm eyeballing Arctic Cooling HSFs atm...always had good luck with them over the years.
Who else should I be checkin' out besides AC? I know water is more affordable than ever...maybe on my next rig.
As for that small difference
- I'll buy an RX 460 2GB for 100 dollars.
- For 20 you can have the 4GB version. 2GBs are dead.
- Then I'll buy the 4GB version.
- For 20 more you can go to the GTX 1050Ti. Much faster.
- Then I'll buy the 1050 Ti.
- Put another 30 and you are on a completely new level with an RX 470.
- Then I'll go for the RX 470.
- Why go with the cut down version? With 20 more you can have the RX 480.
- Then I'll buy the RX 480.
- You are giving all that money. You should think more future proof. Go for the 8GB version.
- OK, then. I'll buy the RX 480 with 8GBs.
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- Excuse me. Forgot to ask. What games do you play?
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 and mostly Football Manager 2017.
I seriously hope nobody asks you to build their PCs
(ignore the football manager stuff in the end, it was more of a little fun than a serious note)
I mean, eventually, if you just keep saying "it's only a little more" you end up at a 1060 6GB. After that it is a pretty big jump to something better.
The price cut isn't in effect for me yet, and I still see 250 CAD for RX 470. If I could score it for below 200CAD, I won't have complains.
Going for 1050ti won't be an upgrade to my current 760 although I'd love to lose the GPU power cable.
760 GTX is currently playing everything I want at a decent framerate, so I don't have the urgency to pull the trigger.
Source? Where I live lol...
And for some people that is a lot of money...
regarding pricing, i set a limit of how much i could SAVE until i could afford the card i wanted. Setting a limit on pricing is only in ur mind, if u want better perf. sensible ppl would wait and save more money
But we wont see the savings in Australia although closer to china / japan we get screwed over on tech because our markets are not big enough or something...
A said state of affairs me thinks. And funny how a 4GB RX 480 is now cheaper/the same price as 8GB RX 470...around 220€ in Germany. Why even bother with either when you can grab a used GTX 970, get better performance and save money?
The complete lack of a 1440p capable card from AMD is the big elephant in the room.