Sapphire launches Radeon RX 460 Nitro OC with full-featured Polaris 11

With the launch of the Polaris architecture, AMD was clear that only two graphics circuits would be launched. These were the Polaris 10 for the Radeon RX 480 and the scaled-down RX 470, as well as the entry-level model Polaris 11 for the RX 460. However, the latter was released without all computing units activated.

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1 Specifications: AMD Radeon RX 460 with 1,024 stream processors

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The Radeon RX 460 available for purchase today has 896 stream processors, despite the fact that the Polaris 11 houses a total of 1,024 units. This has led many to speculate that the company has planned a more powerful “RX 465”. Now, however, Sapphire is launching an RX 460 with full-scale Polaris 11 for the Chinese market.

The model is called Sapphire Radeon RX 460 Nitro OC and is apparently identical to the original variant. The only appearance that reveals that it is a full-scale Polaris 11 is the package with the print “1024SP”, which is short for 1,024 stream processors.

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Specifications: AMD Radeon RX 460 with 1,024 stream processors

	RX 480	RX 470	RX 460	RX 460
Technical	14 nm Samsung	14 nm Samsung	14 nm Samsung	14 nm Samsung
Circuit	Polaris 10	Polaris 10	Polaris 11	Polaris 11
Circuit surface	232 mm²	232 mm²	123 mm²	123 mm²
Transistors	5.7 billion	5.7 billion	3.0 billion	3.0 billion
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Streamprocessorer	2 304 st.	2 048 st.	1 024 st.	896 st.
Texture units	144 st.	128 st.	64 st.	56 st.
Raster units	32 st.	32 st.	16 st.	16 st.
Clock frequency	1 120 MHz	926 MHz	1 090 MHz	1 090 MHz
GPU Boost	1 266 MHz	1 206 MHz	1 200 MHz	1 200 MHz
Computational power	5 834 GFLOPS	4 940 GFLOPS	2 458 GFLOPS	2 150 GFLOPS
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory amount	4/8 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	2/4 GB GDDR5
Memory frequency	8 000 MHz*	6 600 MHz	7 000 MHz	7 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	211,2 GB/s	112 GB/s	112 GB/s
Power supply	6-pin	6-pin	–	–
TBP	150 W	120 W	<75 W	<75 W

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While the Sapphire variant has a clock frequency of 1,250 MHz for the graphics circuit, AMD’s reference design is believed to remain at the same level as the original Radeon RX 460, ie 1,200 MHz. That would correspond to a performance increase of 14 percent and that it has better conditions to go up against Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050.

When and if AMD plans to release Polaris 11 in the rest of the world is not yet known.