10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming X 8GB graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

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

Lets look at the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming X 8GB game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2023. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 363.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming X 8GB performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Back 4 Blood and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 100 FPS, Medium: 79 FPS, High: 53 FPS and Ultra: 38 FPS. We proceeded to look at Resident Evil 8 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a weak 14 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

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 MSI Gaming X 8GB performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Back 4 Blood and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 77 FPS, Medium: 60 FPS, High: 41 FPS and Ultra: 29 FPS. We then checked the performance on Resident Evil 8 to see if that runs well. It was weak with a 11 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming X 8GB 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 MSI Gaming X 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming X 8GB in your PC? This Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming X 8GB card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming X 8GB? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the Radeon RX 470 MSI Gaming X 8GB.