AMD Wants You to Choose Radeon RX 470 Over the GTX 1050 Ti and cuts price

[RavenXXX2]

470 stomps the 1050ti, ti DOA.

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.

Spoiler

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.

 

[Aretak]

The 1050 Ti really doesn't seem to offer anything other than being the new default choice for a slot-powered card, but I suppose that's a niche that needed to be filled, with the 750 Ti being ancient and the RX 460 being underwhelming.

 

[Panos]

RX470 was always the better choice at it's price range.

 

[AllBodies]

Is the 1050 Ti really only 2% faster than a 960? Kinda surprised if so.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Just wow AMD marketing team are much worse than Donald Trump. Load of nonsenses with lots of false details. Take these slides with a big grains of salts.

RX 480 is 33% faster than GTX 1060 in Battlefield 1? However Hardware Unboxed tests showed RX 480's 67 fps was only just 1% faster than GTX 1060's 66 fps in DirectX 12 1440p Ultra Quality. GTX 750 Ti had 4GB version and GTX 1050 will have 4GB version. Pascal got Async Compute worked well in DirectX 12's 3DMark Timespy, Rise of Tomb Raider and Gears of Wars 4.

 

[tommybhoy]

Just wow AMD marketing team are much worse than Donald Trump. Load of nonsenses with lots of false details.

Just be happy that Nv's marketing teams way, way better at the BS, they never fessed up that (true)Async made Maxwell performance regress until they launched Pascal.

 

[DaZzZa]

Just wow AMD marketing team are much worse than Donald Trump. Load of nonsenses with lots of false details. Take these slides with a big grains of salts.

.............................1440p Ultra Quality.................................................................

^ not realy when you consider them pics are of 1080p not 1440p

 

[Erik13]

Just wow AMD marketing team are much worse than Donald Trump. Load of nonsenses with lots of false details. Take these slides with a big grains of salts.

RX 480 is 33% faster than GTX 1060 in Battlefield 1? However Hardware Unboxed tests showed RX 480's 67 fps was only just 1% faster than GTX 1060's 66 fps in DirectX 12 1440p Ultra Quality. GTX 750 Ti had 4GB version and GTX 1050 will have 4GB version. Pascal got Async Compute worked well in DirectX 12's 3DMark Timespy, Rise of Tomb Raider and Gears of Wars 4.

Didn't know that 'Hardware Unboxed ' was gold standart for benchmarks

 

[nashathedog]

Is the 1050 Ti really only 2% faster than a 960? Kinda surprised if so.

Same here, Considering how they managed to push roughly a 2 position improvement with the others ie: 980ti to 1070 and 980 to 1060 I was expecting the 1050ti to match the 970 in optimal situations.