While powerful flagship graphics cards may garner most of the buzz in the press, it's often the lower-end affordable cards that can rake in the profits, not to mention being far more attainable to the average person who's on a really tight budget yet still wants to do some light duty gaming.

AMD has made it clear that framerates aren't the company's primary goal, instead wanting to make affordable products that offer value gaming performance, which is arguably one of the most important criteria for gamers out there who may be hard-pressed to choose where to spend their hard-earned money.