AMD aims for budget end zone, runs price cut interference on Nvidia GTX 1050

By Darren Allan

As you’re probably aware, Nvidia is about to unleash its new wallet-friendly Pascal offerings, the GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti, tomorrow at a very competitive price – but AMD has proved equally determined to be competitive, with the announcement of a pre-emptive price cut for both its Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards.

These new prices actually went live yesterday over in the US, with the RX 470 getting cut to $169 (around £140, AU$220). As the RX 460, that now starts at $99 (around £80, AU$130) pushing it under the magic hundred bucks mark, and this represents a drop of ten bucks for both of these video cards.

So how does that compare to the recommended pricing of Nvidia’s new Pascal offerings? Both the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti are expected to be available tomorrow priced at $109/£115 (around AU$140), and $139/£139 (around AU$180) respectively.

• You can get yourself a sub-$100 RX 460 2GB here

Budget wonder

So effectively, the RX 460 has nipped under the GTX 1050 as the budget wonder of the week. And if you want to see how their relative performance stacks up, our full review of the Nvidia card will be coming very …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components