10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon RX 470 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB 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.

Here is a performance review on how capable the Radeon RX 470 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB is at running the more popular games of 2023. 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 graphics hardware can run 300 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

The Radeon RX 470 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB graphics card is returning a weak performance on Battlefield 2042 at 1080p of 0 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Star Citizen which we predict will get playable frame rates of 43 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Resident Evil 8, which was getting 10 FPS under tests.

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 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Battlefield 2042 and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 0 FPS, Medium: 0 FPS, High: 0 FPS and Ultra: 0 FPS. We then checked the performance on Star Citizen to predict if that will run well. It is predicted to be playable with a 32 FPS at Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the Radeon RX 470 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB running at 1440p is not powerful enough to deal with the increased resolution.

How many years will the Radeon RX 470 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 470 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB in your PC? This Radeon RX 470 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB 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 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB? A great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB, which has 25% better performance and can run 716 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon RX 470 PowerColor Red Devil 4GB then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB as this is better than 956 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 75% better performance as well.