15 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

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

Here is a performance review on how capable the Radeon RX 470 XFX RS Black Edition 4GB is at running the more popular games of 2020. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 117 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Running at 1080p this card is predicted to get a weak frame rate from Grand Theft Auto VI with 8 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Assassins Creed: Valhalla which is predicted to return a weak 12 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Valorant which we saw getting a strong 438 FPS.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the Radeon RX 470 XFX RS Black Edition 4GB performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Grand Theft Auto VI and predict it will deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 16 FPS, Medium: 13 FPS, High: 9 FPS and Ultra: 6 FPS. We then checked the performance on Assassins Creed: Valhalla to predict if that will run well. It is predicted to be weak with a 9 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the Radeon RX 470 XFX RS Black Edition 4GB is one of the more powerful graphics cards for this monitor resolution. Games will be running with stable frame rates at Ultra on a 1440p setup. 4K gaming for a number of modern games should also be considered with this graphics hardware.

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

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 470 XFX RS Black Edition 4GB? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon RX 470 XFX RS Black Edition 4GB then a good choice would be 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB as this is better than 833 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 53% better performance as well. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the R-500 Series Radeon RX 580 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 25% better and can run 769 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.