Chinese site publishes review of the AMD Radeon RX 470D

[HEXUS]

Positioned between the RX460 and RX470, the card isn't supposed to be sold outside China.

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[cheesemp]

Looking at the boost and clock speeds it looks more like a core cutdown 480 4Gb. 7000Mhz RAM, 1266 boost and 150W are identical. Wonder if this is AMD using failed 480 to fill a gap?

[Kanoe]

Shame its only available in China. This is exactly the kind of product AMD needs in America and Europe. Something that is price equivalent to the nVidia hardware but dishes out a beating in all tests. That's a way to reclaim market share!

[scaryjim]

Heh, way to break your new naming scheme within a generation, AMD! Such much for "no suffixes"....

Given that the 470 is already a cut down RX 480, calling this a cut-down RX 480 is a bit redundant. If it's using lower-binned Polaris 10 cores and clocking them quite high it's not surprise to see the power consumption go up; they'll likely need a spot more voltage.

AMD must really be feeling the pinch in the Chinese market if they're doing this to counter the GTX 1050 Ti - although I guess it's a large market and one that they'd have been hoping to make big gains in given the prevalence of MMO/MOBA players over there - it's exactly where Polaris should be taking market-share back, so if they genuinely think the GTX 1050 Ti is going to hurt that effort I can see why they'd push an interim card out. It calls into question the strategy of leaving such a big gap between Polaris 10 and 11 in spec terms...

[Valantar]

Looking at the boost and clock speeds it looks more like a core cutdown 480 4Gb. 7000Mhz RAM, 1266 boost and 150W are identical. Wonder if this is AMD using failed 480 to fill a gap?

The regular 470 is a cut-down 480 ... You do know that chip binning is done before assembling the graphics card, right? The 480, 470 and 470D are all based on the same chip (Polaris 10), just with (or without) various amounts of CUs disabled. Also, TBP would not carry over if this was the case, as the very process of disabling parts of the chip would lower power consumption.

These are no doubt based on the very worst binnings of Polaris 10 chips, hence the high power requirement despite the low core count. I'd bet the high TBP is to ensure that AIB partners outfit these with coolers good enough to maintain competitive clocks even though they're the most power hungry binnings of P10 out there, as the alternative (lower clocks to preserve power/lower heat) would make this far less attractive. Also, the high memory speed is no doubt to counter Nvidia using the same speed on the 1050 Ti. After all, the regular 470 has no problem outpacing this even with slower memory.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The RX470D has the faster RAM from the RX480 8GB series.

Heh, way to break your new naming scheme within a generation, AMD! Such much for "no suffixes"....

Given that the 470 is already a cut down RX 480, calling this a cut-down RX 480 is a bit redundant. If it's using lower-binned Polaris 10 cores and clocking them quite high it's not surprise to see the power consumption go up; they'll likely need a spot more voltage.

AMD must really be feeling the pinch in the Chinese market if they're doing this to counter the GTX 1050 Ti - although I guess it's a large market and one that they'd have been hoping to make big gains in given the prevalence of MMO/MOBA players over there - it's exactly where Polaris should be taking market-share back, so if they genuinely think the GTX 1050 Ti is going to hurt that effort I can see why they'd push an interim card out. It calls into question the strategy of leaving such a big gap between Polaris 10 and 11 in spec terms...

Its actually 7W less for the RX470D,but if you do some quick calculations it looks like it is within a margin of error. The RX470D is only 6.8% slower for 3% lower power consumption when compared to the RX470 they tested.

[cheesemp]

The regular 470 is a cut-down 480 ... You do know that chip binning is done before assembling the graphics card, right? The 480, 470 and 470D are all based on the same chip (Polaris 10), just with (or without) various amounts of CUs disabled. Also, TBP would not carry over if this was the case, as the very process of disabling parts of the chip would lower power consumption.

Yes. I still maintain this is more closely spec'd to an original 480 than a 470. They are all polaris chips but this has 480 power requirements and 480 RAM hence a more a cut down 480 than a cut down 470 as stated in the article (the 470 of course being a cut down 480 but it also runs slow RAM and lower power!!!!)