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Meet the Radeon RX 470 in the form of a PowerColor Radeon RX 470 Red Devil card we received is an 4GB version with a dual-fan heatpipe slash radiator design cooler. It has one PCIe PEG power connector (8-pin). The card has been designed to be a nice match for Full HD gaming, up-to 1080P and perhaps even a 1440P game or two.

These cards are positioned a great alternative for 1920x1080 / 1920x1200. In our findings the card is faster battling with the GeForce GTX 970, at sub 200 USD for a 4GB version that's not a bad position to be in. Obviously there's more to check out other than performance, we'll have a peek at PCB heat levels, GPU temperatures as well as noise levels.
  

Our Radeon RX 470 is armed with 4 GB graphics memory which will be clocked at 7.0 Gbps / 256-bit to give you a little more leash with the higher resolutions and image quality settings. The reference clocked product will run with clock frequencies up-to 1206 MHz on its 2048 shader processors, this model is however factory tweaked a tiny bit and clocked at 1270 MHz (dynamic boost) in the fastest settings (which we test).

This Polaris 10 based product has been designed to be a match for the most popular Full HD resolutions. Actually, it could even do some 1440P gaming quite well also. As you can see, PowerColor includes one HDMI (2.0b), three DisplayPort 1.4 (HDR ready) connectors as well as a DVI connector (yay!). On the reference cards AMD unfortunately stripped away the DVI monitor connector which in the end I feel was an incredibly poor choice. Especially in this price range there are a lot of monitor owners with just a DVI connector.

A tad difficult to see, but if you look at the front left corner of the PCB you'll notice a micro-switch. Basically you get two BIOS modes, silent (with lower clocks and a TDP of a few watts lower) and the OC mode that runs 1270 MHz on the GPU boost. The other BIOS settings runs more silent with near reference clocks. The card comes in retail with the OC bios switched as standard.