







Recently, I purchased my third XFX RX470 RS from Newegg. I was happy to receive a card with Elpida RAM, instead of the lower clocking Hynix modules of earlier batches.









Ver B.1 is the newer batch that the Elpida card was from (ordered in late March 2017). Ver A. 1 is the older batch that both my Hynix cards were from (ordered sometime 2H 2016).





I immediately noticed that the label was, in fact, a sticker. I was excited at first, since I was hoping that maybe I'd received a 570 box. After peeling a but further, I saw a 4, then a 70.





But wait...XFX doesn't actually make an 8GB RX470. And to my knowledge, they never did sell a 8GB RX470 in retail.





Will the XFX 8GB RX470 ever make it to market? I find it doubtful, since there is not much demand for an 8GB RX470. But if XFX really does launch a new RX470 8GB, then the new 5XX cards are probably not as imminent as rumored.





But then, 8GB? It's true, manufacturers often relabel boxes. Many of you know that Sapphire and Powercolor have used similar stickers to cover model details ofmodels in the past.