Allen
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AMD To Allegedly Price-Cut Radeon RX 470 Graphics Card To Tackle GTX 1050 Ti – Expected To Retail For $169 US
...Just for comparisons sake, the RX 470 has 2048 cores clocked at 1206 MHz and 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM that comes in a 120W package. The GTX 1050 Ti comes with 768 cores clocked at 1392 MHz and 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM. The card is expected to feature a TDP close to 75W. It’s quite evident from the the specs that the RX 470 is the faster solution but these are different architectures and what matters is the price to performance value of both of these cards...
Part of the problem is that retailers sell AMD RX4xx series cards for more than "suggested list price" (they do that with some Nvidia products also). More normally, products are sold at a discount -- not a "mark up". Just the way it goes right now because 14nm GPUs are the first substantial GPU performance/price change in 4 years -- and the market is not yet settled.
