ASUS Radeon RX 470 STRIX Gaming 4 GB review - Product Photos

Meet the Radeon RX 470 in the form of the ASUS STRIX GAMING Radeon RX 470, the card we received is an 4 GB version with a dual-fan heatpipe slash radiator design cooler. It has one PCIe PEG power connector (6-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 199 USD for a 'premium' 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 6.6 Gbps / 256-bit. The reference clocked product will run with clock frequencies up-to 1,206 MHz on its 2,048 shader processors, this model is however factory tweaked a tiny bit and clocked at 1,270 MHz (dynamic boost) in the fastest settings (which we test). ASUS however did not touch the power limiter and thus card down-clocks when stressed pretty bad to the 1,150 MHz domain.

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, ASUS includes one HDMI (2.0b), one DisplayPort 1.4 (HDR ready) connectors as well as two DVI connectors. 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.