XFX RX-470 (4G); the detachable twin fans version - there is a single fan version now currently for the same price!



As there are plenty of on-line reviews - which I checked before purchasing - this review will contain only a 'first impressions' review.



Box is fine, the disc and cable well hidden. Cable is rather short and if you are using a 6-pin GPU already you can ignore. CD driver disc is present - very recent! - but I had previously used a AMD GPU so the drivers were already present - did boot up on reduced resolution but switched over automatically with Windows 10 (hardly noticed).



But be careful you remove ALL the plastic skin before installing - I only discovered the plastic on the backplane as I was installing it!



First thing you notice is the silence - you actually notice a heck of a lot of silence - there is an initial whirl on boot up but after a minute it's silence. I discovered that the fans only pop on with games or graphic benchmarking. The way it works is if the GPU temperature is below 50-55 Celsius the fans are switched off - so with general browsing etc don't expect them to come on. In this mode the GPU consumes 10 to 20 watts of power. The fans operate only in the 50 to 70 Celsius range with about 50% of the loading used to hold the GPU on 70 Celsius. However even on 70% GPU graphic loading - Extreme HD on 1080p, the highest I could achieve with my benchmarking - the fans are very very quiet. In fact if you listen extremely closely you can actually hear the very high pitch fax-sound right on the threshold of hearing caused I presume by the VRAM - the other components in the computer are extremely quiet as well hence why I managed to hear this.



As for power draw I have a 430watt PSU and on 70% loading the GPU pulled less than 100 watts (it's rated max 120watts). I checked this as initially I had thought I might be under powering it, hence the silence!



Overall extremely impressive, only wish I had a game to fully tax it - although I am working on this now :)



No idea if this is the best-of-brands RX-470 available but I am pretty sure no one is going to be disappointed with this XFX card.



Note: When checking out the reviews I noticed that the GTX 1060 (3G) scored better graphically on Dx11 than the RX 470 (4G) but the latter was better - so far - with Dx12. Giving the GTX 1060 is around £20 more expensive and I was more familiar with AMD GPUs I went with the RX 470.