Biostar Releases RX 470D For Miners with Unreleased Chip

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/04/2017 05:40 PM | source: | 7 comment(s)

Basically the Biostar RX 470D is using a cut-down chip. A Radeon RX 470 should have 2048 shader processors, this one only has 1792. The memory frequency has been increased from 6000 MHz to 7000 MHz though.

The clock speed of the GPU is 1200 MHz. This is aimed at the mining market even though the GPU has display ports. This could mean that AMD is playing safe and not removing the display ports.

The Biostar RX 470D features a heatsink cooler with 2 fans and comes in a red and black design. The D series GPUs could all be aimed at the mining market. Miners are causing GPU shortages around the world and this is becoming rather annoying for the average consumer that is not looking to get into cryptocurrency mining.

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kapu
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#5449464 Posted on: 07/04/2017 07:00 PM

Safe ? Releasing without dp was plain stupid but i guess they figured it out quickly.

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#5449481 Posted on: 07/04/2017 07:48 PM

not really unreleased... those RX are on OEM version

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#5449546 Posted on: 07/05/2017 02:36 AM

http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/vga/introduction.php?S_ID=236#specification

- AMD Radeon RX470D GPU
- 4GB GDDR5, 256bit with 1792 Stream processors
- DVI, 3 Display port, HDMI output support
- PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
- Support Radeon Freesync Technology
- DirectX 12 and Vulkan Optimized
- AMD XConnect and HDR Ready
- Special Dual-cooling desin for Mining

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#5449549 Posted on: 07/05/2017 03:09 AM

biostar makes GPUs?

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#5449618 Posted on: 07/05/2017 12:08 PM

Safe ? Releasing without dp was plain stupid but i guess they figured it out quickly.

no there is still DP (not as asus wich chose to remove any in/out)

the pict seem to be "illustration" as even on biostar website it is not as in the spec

biostar makes GPUs?

no, only GPU card, they just make use the D version of polaris wich was originaly intended for OEM product (it's cut down version) on their mining card.

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