Hardware & Technical AMD RX 470: How would it cope with Elite Dangerous?

[Deleted member 110222]

I've never looked at this card, because I'm simply not familiar with AMD hardware.

However, I decided to satisfy my curiosity today, and took a peek at this card.

I was astounded by the low price of this card. Enough that I will consider it.

I have already seen performance on other games, paired with an i5 4690, which I also want to get as I'm interested in OC'ing. The frame rates the card was getting on max settings on a variety of games at 1080p was astounding.

What I need to find out, however, is would the card be a worthwhile successor to my GTX 960 4GB, and does anyone know how the card runs ED:H?

And what can I expect from the card for heat & software?

Thanks all, look forward to your feedback on my upgrade options.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

At a rough glance, I'd say not particularly worth the upgrade.

But I'm pretty out of date myself. So don't take my word for it.

If your GTX 960 is still going strong, I see no reason in upgrading to something similar.
Especially when you'll lose the ability to use Shadowplay.
You'll probably be ok until the GTX 1160, or whatever the next next gen is.

From my (old) experience, it's never worth upgrading each year, or generation.
Always skip a few.

Back in "my day" (lol), I had an old Nvidia geForce 4.
I skipped the GeForce 5(or whatever), and 6000 series and got a GT 7800,
Skipped GT 8800
Then got a GT 9800.
Then switched to an AMD HD 6870, which is where I am still. Lol

I've seen the disappointment when people have upgraded from an GTX 760 to 860.

Spending £200 for a 10% upgrade isn't particularly worth while. Heh.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

At a rough glance, I'd say not particularly worth the upgrade.

But I'm pretty out of date myself. So don't take my word for it.

If your GTX 960 is still going strong, I see no reason in upgrading to something similar.
Especially when you'll lose the ability to use Shadowplay.
You'll probably be ok until the GTX 1160, or whatever the next next gen is.

From my (old) experience, it's never worth upgrading each year, or generation.
Always skip a few.

Back in "my day" (lol), I had an old Nvidia geForce 4.
I skipped the GeForce 5(or whatever), and 6000 series and got a GT 7800,
Skipped GT 8800
Then got a GT 9800.
Then switched to an AMD HD 6870, which is where I am still. Lol

I've seen the disappointment when people have upgraded from an GTX 760 to 860.

Spending £200 for a 10% upgrade isn't particularly worth while. Heh.

Fair play.

'Tis all a learning experience and I'm not going to do so without asking questions.

Thanks for your time.

 

[The Chairmaker]

I recently upgraded to a Sapphire Nitro + 8gb RX480. This is a card one step up from the 470 and cost me £250. However it is not a huge step up from the rx470 more of an incremental improvement.

I went from playing ED in medium settings and struggling to get 30 frames a second on planets with my ancient radeon 5870 from 2009 vintage to being able to put everything upto ultra and be getting 60 fps on planets and well over 100+ in SPACE. That's with Super sampling set t 1.5 In game.

This is playing on my pc which has an ancient 2008 vintage I7 920

AMD have their equivalent to shadowplay called plays.tv if you like recording footage.

The key though it that if you can play games adequately on your 960 then it might not be worth buying. Although you will get a significant improvement specifically in all the direct x 12 and vulkan games. NVIDIAs newest cards have been on the whole shown to be slightly inferior to AMD in Direct x 12 (while getting embarrassed with older cards compared to the amd equivalent of the era) which is what newer games are tending to be coded on, and have been totally destroyed in Doom running Vulkan .

The RX470 is designed to be able to play all current games at 60FPS in ultra settings at 1080p.
The RX480 and NVIDIA 1060 are designed to do the above but also allow high performance at 1440p
Nvidia 1070 is a 1440p ultra settings card
NVIDIA titan is a card for people with more money than sense.