AMD’s Radeon RX 470 does a solid 1080p60 but at a confusing price

AMD has made it clear that it wants the low end of the graphics card market, and now it’s time to see how committed it is to that strategy.

In July, the company revealed the Radeon RX 470 and 460 chips that are meant to fill out its latest video-card offerings. The 480, on the high end, is a solution for 1080p gaming and virtual reality. The 470, however, drops the VR capabilities in favor of a slightly lower price, but AMD promises that it can still pump out most games running on their highest settings at full HD and 60 frames per second. But with a starting price of $180, the 470 might not make a lot of sense when the 480 is only $20 away and the significantly more powerful Nvidia GeForce 1060 is right in the same range as well. That comparison is even stranger when you consider that the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 470 4GB that I tested sells for $210. That’s … $10 more than the base-model 480.