2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

A strong performing piece of hardware, Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB can still meet a lot of the game system requirements of modern games. Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB where we look at the bigger games played in 2020. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 155.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Marvel's Avengers and predict it will deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 44 FPS, Medium: 34 FPS, High: 23 FPS and Ultra: 17 FPS. We proceeded to look at Grand Theft Auto VI to see how that compared and predict that it will return a weak 7 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we researched the upcoming Marvel's Avengers to predict how the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB would deal with it. Our research revealed a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 33 FPS, Medium: 26 FPS, High: 18 FPS and Ultra: 13 FPS. Next we looked at Grand Theft Auto VI which we predict will be weak with a 5 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Horizon: Zero Dawn that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 31. 1440p gaming on the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB is going to struggle to keep a solid FPS, but a modern game could have a few options tweaked to get it playable at this res but on low graphics settings.

How many years will the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB in your PC? We think this Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB has around 6-12 months until an upgrade should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 56% better and can run 852 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX 580 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 27% better and can meet 789 of their recommended requirements.