AMD launches Radeon RX 460

When AMD announced the new Radeon RX series with the Polaris architecture, the goal was a lot of performance at low price tags. Following the launches of the Radeon RX 480 and RX 470, the company is rounding out the new graphics family with the entry-level model RX 460 based on the Polaris 11 circuit.

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Specifications: AMD Radeon RX 470 and RX 460

	RX 480	RX 470	RX 460
Technical	14 nm Samsung	14 nm Samsung	14 nm Samsung
Circuit	Polaris 10	Polaris 10	Polaris 11
Circuit surface	232 mm²	232 mm²	–
Transistors	5.7 billion	5.7 billion	–
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Streamprocessorer	2 304 st.	2 048 st.	896 st.
Texture units	144 st.	128 st.	56 st.
Raster units	32 st.	32 st.	16 st.
Clock frequency	1 120 MHz	926 MHz	1 090 MHz
GPU Boost	1 266 MHz	1 206 MHz	1 200 MHz
Computational power	5 834 GFLOPS	4 940 GFLOPS	2 150 GFLOPS
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit
Memory amount	4/8 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	2/4 GB GDDR5
Memory frequency	8 000 MHz*	6 600 MHz	7 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	211,2 GB/s	112 GB/s
Power supply	6-pin	6-pin	–
TBP	150 W	120 W	<75 W
Availability	Launched	August 4th	August 8th

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* Applies to variants of Radeon RX 480 with 8 GB GDDR5. Models with only 4 GB have a memory frequency of 7,000 MHz and a bandwidth of 224 GB / s.

In its full design, the graphics circuit has 1,024 stream processors, 64 texture units, 16 raster units and a 128-bit memory bus. With the Radeon RX 460, however, AMD uses a scaled-down variant with 896 stream processors and 56 texture units, which suggests that a faster variant will be released in the future.

In terms of graphics memory, the RX 460 comes with 2 or 4 GB GDDR5 in 7,000 MHz, for a bandwidth of 112 GB / s. The power consumption of the graphics card is officially 75 W, which makes it possible for partner manufacturers to release variants without a 6-pin PCI Express connection.

AMD points out, however, that there is no reference design of the Radeon RX 460 and that partners have completely free hands to develop their own solutions, with custom coolers and circuit boards. Even things like clock frequencies should vary greatly between different models, which is why there are many variants with a 6-pin connection.

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In terms of performance, the Radeon RX 460 does not aim for the latest major titles. Instead, AMD hopes that it will be a popular alternative for users who want to upgrade their systems to get a better flow in less demanding E-sports games.

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Also special for this launch is that the Radeon RX 460 is also intended for laptops and that it will be marketed under the same brand, which is justified by the fact that the performance should be similar to the desktop equivalent.

Radeon RX 460 will be available in stores today and has Swedish recommended prices of SEK 1,379 for variants with 2 GB of graphics memory and SEK 1,639 for models equipped with 4 GB.