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The MSI RX 470 Gaming X 8G ships in a colourful box with a high resolution image of the product on the front.
The rear of the box goes into more detail on the card specifics including catchy headlines such as ‘Play Hard, Stay Silent'. Yes, we will indeed MSI.
The bundle includes a software disc, and a quick users guide.
The MSI RX 470 Gaming X 8GB is a very attractive card and features the two red and black tone cooling system we love – there are two custom branded ‘Torx 2.0' fans fitted. Unfortunately it is not all good because MSI have decided not to fit a backplate to the rear of the PCB. It will be interesting to see later with our thermal imaging camera how this will effect the issue of thermal hotspots under heavy load.
The card takes power from a single 8 Pin PCI e connector.
This card would look so much better with a fancy MSI branded backplate fitted. We understand companies needing to cut costs in the lower end market, but this card is retailing for £230 in the UK, so I find it very disappointing. The £199 Sapphire RX 480 has one fitted for instance.
It is interesting to note that official MSI RX470 Gaming X 8GB product images regarding the LED lighting system on the official MSI website show the card fitted with a backplate HERE. As it stands you will only see some colour through the MSI logo on the side of the card, above.
The I/O plate is fitted with a single DVI (Dual Link) connector, two HDMI (2.0) connectors, and two DisplayPort (1.4) connectors.
The MSI Twin Frozr IV cooler is substantial, featuring several thick heatpipes, which run into densely packed racks of aluminum fins on either side of the cooling block.
I want to see an RX 480 XFire and MultiGPU review… Even an RX470 XFire review would be great… Zen should make it go fast…
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I think you absolutely hit the nail on the head, rx470 4gb, and rx480 8gb as the only choices would have made the whole thing better and clearer for everyone. Even their own sales!
8gb pointless on a 470
wow thats just so wrong
several games already take more than 4gb.
what’s pointless is 4gb on a 480
this is not about games, rx470 have weak muscles to carry out 8gb
“this is not about games”? What do you mean with that?
You essentially always pay for GPU power. A 8GB 470 might have too much VRAM, which is useless as worstcase, yet a 4GB 480 will have unspent GPU power when you have to reduce the textures cuz of VRAM. Increasing texture quality is only limited by VRAM and has no effect on the GPU-limited framerate.
A surplus on VRAM is always better than a surplus of GPU power.
Does anybody knows if this card really support 5 independent screens at once?
Thanx in advance
RX470 is actually have same design like RX480. I’ve the Sapphire Nitro RX470 8GB OC with default clock @1260 MHz that reach 5.1 TeraFlops which is same like the stock reference RX480.