10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

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 2022. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 306 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

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 Forza Horizon 5 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 86 FPS, Medium: 68 FPS, High: 46 FPS and Ultra: 33 FPS. We proceeded to look at Battlefield 2042 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a weak 0 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Forza Horizon 5 to see how the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 65 FPS, Medium: 52 FPS, High: 35 FPS and Ultra: 25 FPS. Next we looked at Battlefield 2042 which was weak with a 0 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Back 4 Blood that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 25. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB, this 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? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB? A suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon RX 470 XFX Single Fan Triple X 4GB is the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, which is 25% more powerful and can run 616 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB which is 81% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 961 games from the most demanding games today.