Within hours, GeForce GTX 1080 will appear before the public . Meanwhile, AMD is still only preparing for the announcement of Polaris graphics solutions, and the company has long made it clear that they will play in a more affordable price league. This will allow AMD to regain some of the lost market positions, as video mass models are sold in much larger quantities than the product more than $ 400-500.
According to associate, the video card Radeon R9 470X based on Baffin receive 1280 stream processors, 80 texture fetch units and 40 ROP units. The GPU is clocked at 1 GHz and 4 GB of GDDR5 memory will use 128-bit bus operating at a frequency of 7 GHz QDR.
In terms of speed Radeon R9 470X will be located between Radeon R9 380 and Radeon R9 380X. By the way, Chinese sources referred to a higher TDP level , than previously reported - 60 watts instead of 50 watts. It can be assumed that he was talking about the different versions of video cards based on Baffin: Radeon R9 470X and Radeon R9 470, respectively.