AMD announces cost effective RX470/460 with high 1080p performance

Today AMD announced the RX470 & RX460. Two new Polaris based GPUs that are aimed to come under the RX480 and provide performance at a cut throat price.

The Radeon RX 470 is being positioned as the perfect card for 1080p gaming. Featuring a very similar design to the RX 480, and using a cut-down version of the same Polaris 10 GPU, AMD claims this card can play a wide range of modern titles at 1080p and 60+ FPS with anti-alisasing enabled.

The Radeon RX 460 is AMD’s entry-level graphics card for e-sports gamers. Using a Polaris 11 GPU, the RX 460 is capable of playing popular e-sports titles like Dota 2, Rocket League and Overwatch at 90+ FPS on high quality settings at 1080p.

AMD’s RX 470 will be available around August 4th, while the RX 460 will go on sale around August 8th. No word on pricing as of  yet, but expect both cards to be priced between  $100 to $200 price range