XFX RX 470D Black Wolf Edition Graphics Card Review: The "Sniper Rifle" of the Year

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AMD has specially added a new graphics card, the RX 470D, to the Chinese market, targeting the cost-effective market, Internet cafe users, and gamers. In our tests, the RX 470D has an absolute advantage in performance.

The core specifications of RX 470D are derived from the CU unit of RX 470, inheriting the core codenamed Elesmere of Polaris 10, the improved GCN4.0 architecture, and using the 14nm FinFET process. Stream Processor , 112 texture units and 32 raster units.

In terms of video interfaces, DisplayPort1.4 x1, HDMI 2.0 x1, and DVI x1 are available on the public version, and an additional DVI interface is added to meet everyone's needs.

The power consumption of RX 470D is not high. The reverse 6-pin interface can meet the demand, and there is also a power supply status indicator. In addition, XFX still provides a dual BIOS switching function.

Due to cost and market positioning reasons, the XFX original simple LOGO light has been removed

The entire card is 240mm long. The XFX backplate that I liked before has also been cancelled, which is a pity, but the selection and scale of PCB components are not ambiguous at all. Both the layout and components are exactly the same as its big brother RX 480 4GB Black Wolf Evolution.

PCB total length 210mm

It still uses 4-phase core power supply, and XFX's iconic True X inductor can greatly reduce the howling. The PWM master control is the common ON Semiconductor NCP81022, the core power supply uses a 2+1 MOSFET combination, and one phase of the video memory power supply uses a 1+1 MOSFET combination.

There are a total of 8 Hynix GDDR5 video memory particles around the core, with a specification of 4Gb/256bit and an equivalent frequency of 7Gbps.

There is also a memory power supply on the right side, using Hynix GDDR5 memory

This generation of AMD Polaris 10 cores has no printing, RX 470D has 1792 stream processors, and the XFX RX 470D frequency is set at 1226MHz.

This is the core of RX 470D, which looks exactly the same as RX 470, and its surface is very smooth like a mirror.

Although the RX 470D is aimed at a large number of Internet cafes, it still uses the "Cool Soul" 4th generation cooling system. Two 8mm heat pipes are used to buckle with a large area of ​​pure copper base, and two 9cm fans are matched with a large area of ​​cooling fins to ensure that the temperature is within a reasonable level. The power MOS tubes that generate a lot of heat are also in contact with the fins, which improves the heat dissipation effect.

The test items include 3DMark (Fire Strike, Time Spy) and Hevean 4.0. You may be tired of the original test items. In order to add new test game items, the editor dug out the backup of "Batman: Arkham Knight" from the hard drive, plus the popular game "Battlefield 1" which was recently launched. There are a total of 10 games covering different performance requirements and game types. Similarly, only the game results are tested at 1080P resolution.

It is not groundless that AMD graphics cards have higher support for DirectX 12 games. The test results in "Warhammer: Total War" and "Battlefield 1" are very good. In "Rise of the Tomb Raider" and "Hitman 6", the previous game memory test showed that the memory requirements of these two masterpieces are terrifying. Thanks to the RX 470D 4GB, it can even fight back.

The RX 470D has an easy time running DirectX 11 games. When running "Batman: Arkham Knight", it was found that the game has high requirements for video memory and can consume 4GB of video memory.

Although the RX 470D is mainly sold as a complete machine and for Internet cafe customers, netizens still have the opportunity to access and buy the RX 470D, so we still tried to conduct a simple overclocking test on it.

In the global WattMan in AMD Radeon settings, we switched the fan speed and temperature control to manual, set the minimum acoustic limit to the maximum, and the power consumption limit to 50%. Finally, we successfully increased the frequency by 8% to complete the Fire Strike test in 3DMark. The platform score was 10624 and the graphics card score was 11815, which was 13.69% higher than the default setting, which is quite high.

All the test items of XFX RX 470D have ended here. I believe everyone has a deep understanding of its performance, power consumption, temperature, overclocking , and other aspects. From the performance point of view, RX 470D is good. With the price of 1299 yuan, it is the most cost-effective graphics card of AMD this year (provided that it can be bought), and it has become a successful "sniper rifle" of this year.

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