10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming 4GB is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements.

DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2023. In particular we focus on how well the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming 4GB runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. 297 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming 4GB performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Grand Theft Auto VI and predict it will deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 16 FPS, Medium: 12 FPS, High: 8 FPS and Ultra: 6 FPS. We proceeded to look at FIFA 22 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a good 79 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Grand Theft Auto VI will deliver weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 12 FPS, Medium: 10 FPS, High: 6 FPS and Ultra: 5 FPS. Next we have FIFA 22 running on Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming 4GB which gets L: 158FPS, M: 125FPS, H: 84FPS, U: 60FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Forza Horizon 5 gets L: 64FPS, M: 51FPS, H: 34FPS, U: 24FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming 4GB is certainly a viable option for these higher gaming resolutions. Remember that if you suffer some 1440p FPS drops the you can usually tweak modern game graphics settings until you get a near High graphics setting experience with this Graphics card.

How many years will the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming 4GB in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming 4GB? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 29% better and can meet 716 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively we would suggest getting a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB, as it can run 956 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 82% increased graphics performance.