AMD takes $10 off suggested retail prices for RX 460 2GB and 470 4GB

AMD has lowered the suggested retail prices of the Radeon RX 460 with 2GB vram and RX 470 with 4GB vram by ten dollars. The company may be doing this to compete with the upcoming Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti.

In an email sent to TechReport and Gamersnexus, among others, AMD announced that the US suggested retail prices of the RX 460 2GB and RX 470 4GB will drop to $100 and $170 respectively. The suggested retail price of the RX 460 2GB is therefore just below the suggested retail price of the GTX 1050 2GB, which is 109 dollars. The GTX 1050 Ti, which will have 4GB of RAM, has a suggested retail price of $139 and is still well below the $170 of the RX 470 4GB. Judging by prices on Newegg, however, that price is about the same as the current prices for the 4GB variant of the RX 460, which sells for 130 to 140 dollars. However, no independent benchmarks are yet known for the GTX 1050, so the price-performance ratios of the cards cannot yet be compared.

It is currently unclear whether this drop in suggested retail price also applies to Europe. In addition, it remains to be seen whether this decision by AMD will have any effect in practice; due to stock shortages, the prices for the latest video cards from AMD and Nvidia are currently often higher than the recommended retail prices. The closer the price of a video card comes to the suggested retail prices, the longer the wait is for the actual delivery.

Videocardz also wrote this week about a new variant of the RX 470 called the RX 470D. This would be a stripped-down variant of this video card that is said to only appear in the Chinese market. The card is somewhat smaller than the RX 470 and has 1792 stream processors instead of 2048. This model only gets a variant with 4GB gddr5 memory.