Review and testing of the AMD Radeon RX 460 graphics card for laptops : Test | Specs | CPU | Config

For many years, ordinary gamers had access to AMD graphics cards for laptops only based on the old microarchitecture, which underwent rebranding and markdown several times. Currently, Advanced Micro Devices is in dire need of powerful and economical GPUs for mobile PCs, since the company’s share of the market for discrete graphics adapters for laptops does not exceed 40% (including APU), so at the end of 2016 AMD introduced the AMD Radeon RX 460 graphics card for mobile segment. The decision by AMD marketers not to rename the mobile version of the Radeon RX 460 to the RX 460M was a response to a similar move by NVIDIA, since the mobile version is based on the same Polaris 11 chip as the desktop version.

Recall that the reference design Radeon RX 460 desktop video card operates at frequencies of 1090-1200/1750 (7000) MHz (core / memory). The AMD Polaris 11 chip, made with a 14nm technological standard, has 896 4th generation GCN stream processors, 56 ROPs, 16 rendering units and a 128-bit memory bus. The mobile version of the Radeon RX 460 video card has the same characteristics, except for the core clock speeds, which are cut down to 1180 (Boost) MHz in the laptop version.

Although the Radeon RX 460 card lacks the stars from the sky, demonstrating the performance level of the Radeon R9 270 or slightly higher, for games at a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, with rare exceptions, it is quite enough. We also note that the mobile version has all the advantages of a desktop analog, such as support for DisplayPort 1.4 (read), HDMI 2.0b, HDR, improved H.265 encoding and decoding. The power consumption is approximately 75 watts.

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