Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB Review

August 4, 2016 | 13:58

Tags: #polaris #radeon #rx-470

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Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC Overclocking

After increasing the temperature limit to 90°C and the power limit to 150 percent, we were able to raise the card's boost clock by 100MHz, taking it to 1,360MHz. This is equivalent to an eight percent increase, or 13 percent compared to reference speeds. The card was able to sustain this frequency constantly without fluctuations.

The memory, meanwhile, was stable up to 1.95GHz (7.8Gbps effective), an 11 percent increase.

Overclocking - Ashes of the Singularity

2,560 x 1,440, DX12, 'High' settings, 2x MSAA

  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB (OC)
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB (OC)
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB (OC)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Nitro 8GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
    • 52
    • 76
    • 46
    • 69
    • 44
    • 79
    • 41
    • 59
    • 39
    • 60
    • 38
    • 56
    • 38
    • 55
    • 37
    • 64
    • 36
    • 54
    • 36
    • 53
    • 35
    • 53
    • 35
    • 52
    • 31
    • 45
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Overclocking - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

2,560 x 1,440, DX11, 'High' settings (HairWorks off), AA on

  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB (OC)
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB (OC)
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Nitro 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB (OC)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
    • 69
    • 77
    • 63
    • 72
    • 63
    • 69
    • 53
    • 59
    • 53
    • 58
    • 50
    • 55
    • 49
    • 56
    • 48
    • 52
    • 46
    • 52
    • 46
    • 50
    • 46
    • 50
    • 44
    • 48
    • 41
    • 47
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20
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40
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Overclocking - Unigine Valley 1.0

2,560 x 1,440, DX11, 'Ultra' settings, 0x AA

  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB (OC)
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Nitro 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB (OC)
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB (OC)
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB
    • 4443
    • 3980
    • 3373
    • 3364
    • 3094
    • 2970
    • 2656
    • 2561
    • 2542
    • 2356
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    • 2229
    • 2169
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