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Has anyone got or is going to buy an RX460 or RX470 ?

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As in the title, Has anyone got or is going to buy an RX460 or RX470 ?

I was thinking as to how popular these cards will be. They don't get a lot of mention on the forums but AMD must sell loads of them.
 
I am currently trying to find a good excuse to justify buying one. Would want one with a decent pcb like. An msi hawk, but they all look a bit rubbish at the moment.
 
I don't know how popular RX 470 and 460 will be compared to RX 480 but I checked a retailer site which tracked product sales buyers ordered on site. A day after RX 480 launched saw around 180 people bought RX 480 cards in stock. But a day after RX 470 launched saw just 30 people bought RX 470 cards in stock and it now nearly a week on saw total of 70 people bought RX 470 which is really very few than over 1000 people bought RX 480 in first 7 days. What about RX 460? Oh dear just 15 people bought it since launch!

Guess people were put off at high prices that made no sense. We have to wait until Sept to see Steam hardware survey if both RX 470 and RX 460 are in database and how well they doing compared to RX 480.
 
I suspect that the audience for the lower to mid range cards is probably not the sort of people who spend a huge amount of time here :) So don't know that us enthusiasts are particularly representative of the larger community.

I also think the marketing for those cards has been quite lacklustre. I bet there will be lots of these on shelves and in prebuilt systems aimed at people who aren't doing the research.
 
Probably worth tagging the 470 into the 480 owners thread given it's just a cutdown version.

460 just isn't important here, most of these will end up in OEMs and emerging markets I imagine.
 
Mrs has a 7850 at the moment, was hoping the 460 was going to be a nice cheap upgrade for her. Alas it was not to be and the 7850 lives to fight another day.
 
The £165 470 is tempting me. I'm waiting to see what people think of the noise whilst under load.

Would love to hear from anyone who has this card and doesn't play with closed headphones or IEMs :p
 
I bought the 470 Nitro.

I needed a card now, wasn't keen on spending more than £200 and didn't want a reference cooler.
 
I've ordered the 8Gb Nitro RX 470. I swapped from my preorder of 480 after seeing the benchs of the lesser versions of the 470, and how well the 4GB Nitro was overclocking. Unfortunately the benchs were a bit bias in favor of the 470 over the 480, because the drivers they were on also gave a ~3% boost to the 480, but none of the reviewers had time to notice that on release. I'm still going to be stoked with my purchase, it will max out my current monitor(60hz 1080p), and I when I upgrade that it will just be to a 75Hz IPS Freesync monitor, which the 470 will also perform very well with. On top of that, I plan on dipping my toes into ETH mining, which the 8GB 470 does pretty much just as well as a 480 in. Also I'm really impatient for this long needed upgrade, and hearing that it was being pushed back from the 5th to the 12th and still a maybe on that killed me after having waited weeks already, and knowing international shipping will mean even my 470 is a week or 2 away.
 
I bought the ref Rx470 from off of here, Will be running it on stock cooler then I will be converting the card into an Itx, as Amd forgot to cater for this form factor.
 
I looked at the 470 nitro but the 480 version was only £10 more! And then the 1060 only another £30! Decisions, decisions!
 
Brazo said:
I looked at the 470 nitro but the 480 version was only £10 more! And then the 1060 only another £30! Decisions, decisions!
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To me the 470 Nitro makes no sense until the 480 goes up in price, which Gibbo is saying it will do. Then it'll be the 470 at £188 or the 480 at £210 (both 4GB).
 
I'm still thinking about getting the 460 as its low price low running cost and the fact i don't play any games makes it worth it to me.


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