Impressed with RX 460 overall.

[Filip Georgievski]

So i had a thread about a week ago when i was instaling an RX 460 on a friend's PC.
Specs:
Intel Core I5 2300
Foxconn H67MP-V 2.0
Sapphire RX 460 Nitro 4GB (New)
8GB of RAM ( 4 x 2 mix-match Apacher and Kingston 1333mhz)
DeepCool DN500 80+ White (New)
WD 1TB Caviar Blue (New)
Windows 10 Pro
Philips 1080p 60hz Monitor

And i put it through some tests to see how it will perform with the upgrades done on it.

GTAV-1080p-Ultra-No AA
Min: 45FPS Avg: 53Fps Max:60Fps

AC Unity-1080p-High-No AA
Min:40Fps Avg:50Fps Max:60Fps

Crysis 1-1080p-Ultra-No AA
Min:42Fps Avg:50Fps Max:58Fps

Pls comment on this setup and performance overall and give suggestions on things.

P.S: Overall im realy satisfied with the performance this 7 year old PC gave aftet the upgrade.

 

[Vya Domus]

I would have picked a GTX 1050 insetead , but that would have been just a tad faster , one thing that I would have definitely done is pick the cheapest variant , everything else is just not worth it for a low end card like this. Anyway you should OC the thing to get the most out of it , it should do 1300-1350 mhz on the core just fine and an extra +400 mhz on the memory should possible as well.

 

[EarthDog]

Ehh.. having to run without AA at 1080p looks terrible to me. Console like or worse. If you can tolerate that, then good on you and looks like your set for those titles.. try most anything AAA and you aren't sitting so pretty.

 

[Outback Bronze]

Ehh.. having to run without AA at 1080p looks terrible to me. Console like or worse. If you can tolerate that, then good on you and looks like your set for those titles.. try most anything AAA and you aren't sitting so pretty.

Yep, anything under 4K for me now is a no go... I even gota get some AA with that too

 

[Recon-UK]

Hmm not bad i guess, but not being able to use any AA shows how weak the core GPU is, a shame since it has a 4GB framebuffer?

 

[Vya Domus]

Ehh.. having to run without AA at 1080p looks terrible to me. Console like or worse.

I have seen some terrible post process and temporal AA implemetations in games from recent years like Fallout 4 , if you ask me sometimes you are actually better off without. But I have seen very good ones like in Doom , I wish devs would put more thought into this.

 

[P4-630]

MSAA + FXAA is the shit!

 

[Filip Georgievski]

On the note of the 1050, the 460 was 80$ cheaper than 1050 with 3GB and i think it is not even that much faster to justify that price point.
Here for me, with the help of some friends, i got the 460 brand new for like 150$ which is a good price here to be had.
The 1050 goes for 230$ for me brand new.
For that 80$ my friend got a new PSU and HDD which he needed.

 

[jaggerwild]

Id suggest getting or adding more memory. Going from 8GB to 16B, as you did ask. double what you have or just get a new kit, if moneys tight then I guess not.

 

[Filip Georgievski]

Hmm not bad i guess, but not being able to use any AA shows how weak the core GPU is, a shame since it has a 4GB framebuffer?

With AA it dips a little more frames, it is playable, but not i personaly do not like most game's AA implementation, which it is too blury and it makes me feel like im playing HD resolution or even lower.

 

[EarthDog]

With AA it dips a little more frames, it is playable, but not i personaly do not like most game's AA implementation, which it is too blury and it makes me feel like im playing HD resolution or even lower.

I have seen some terrible post process and temporal AA implemetations in games from recent years like Fallout 4 , if you ask me sometimes you are actually better off without. But I have seen very good ones like in Doom , I wish devs would put more thought into this.

Stick to MSAA. It, more or less, just does the edges of things... items which actually need it.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

If turn Vsync off you will be able to see the Max Fps - as vsync lock to a max of 60fps
For Benchmarking purposes

 

[FYFI13]

MSAA + FXAA is the shit!

That's how i play Arma 3: x8 MSAA + FSAA, +20% texture upscaling, looks terrific!

 

[Nosada]

Not a suggestion, more of a question:

Would you happen to have ARK: survival evolved on hand for testing? I have some nephews who obsess over it but don't have the budget to buy 3 RX470's for their PC's.

 

[EarthDog]

So does every other GPU out there.

 

[rruff]

On the note of the 1050, the 460 was 80$ cheaper than 1050 with 3GB and i think it is not even that much faster to justify that price point.

If it was 3GB, wouldn't that be a 1060? Cost difference would be justified in that case, but not for a 1050 which is only ~15-20% faster.

 

[eidairaman1]

If turn Vsync off you will be able to see the Max Fps - as vsync lock to a max of 60fps
For Benchmarking purposes

Vsync locks to the maximum refresh rate the monitor has that the gpu is displaying at that Moment. My Monitor is from 2001 and has a Max of 75Hz, VSync on runs at that rate.

 

[jboydgolfer]

I always loved breathing life into PCs with a mid or low range card. My favorite has to be hands-down the look on peoples faces who own small form factor OEM PCs , like a Dell OptiPlex SFF. You slap a GTX 1050 TI in one of those bitches and next thing you know they're running games beautifully.

A lot of people don't realize they're running less than 1080 P on those machines often. And when you put a card like a 460 or a 1050 and have them try to run some games ,they're blown away when they're seeing hundred plus FPS because they're running at 720 P, and it's no sweat for one of those cards.

It always made me more and more aware of how small the performance of day-to-day use increases once you go beyond the low to mid end range for hardware. For example, I've been running nothing but quad cores, or hyperthreaded quad cores for the last 5-7 years but recently I installed a Pentium G3258 in my main PC & I haven't noticed a single difference in day-to-day use.

My rig still performs blazingly fast it's still plays games just fine although I'm admittedly not a big game. I guess it probably also doesn't hurt that the Pentium beats out a 4790 K in single threaded performance , with a 4.2 GHz over o'clock.

I guess my point is ,a lot of money gets thrown away on super high-end enthusiast grade hardware when all we really NEED is mid range 90% of the time.not everybody needs it, but I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find somebody who hasn't wasted money on a component they could've done with a lesser version of
I'm certainly guilty of it with terabytes of Samsung 850 Evo storage

 

[SnakeDoctor]

Vsync locks to the maximum refresh rate the monitor has that the gpu is displaying at that Moment. My Monitor is from 2001 and has a Max of 75Hz, VSync on runs at that rate.

Not the point I'm try to make ,more to compare fps it better to have vsync off or you just maxing your to your refresh rate.For benchmarking purposes but I prefer it on during gaming

 

[eidairaman1]

Not the point I'make ,more to compare fps it better to have vsync off or you just maxing your to your refresh rate.For benchmarking purposes but I prefer it on during gaming

With it off there is potential for tearing. I leave mine on too because I don't have to worry about frame dropping. I just crank the details to max.

 

[Vya Domus]

I guess my point is ,a lot of money gets thrown away on super high-end enthusiast grade hardware when all we really NEED is mid range 90% of the time.

Agreed , that's why I'm still holding onto my FX6300 despite so many telling me to upgrade , I don't do it partially because I don't want to buy rebrands from Intel but mainly because after getting a 1060 I simply didn't feel limited at all at 1080p 60fps. I'm still looking forward for an upgrade but not anything more than an 8 thread Ryzen.

 

[m&m's]

The RX 460 isn't a bad card, but the 2GB version makes more sense IMO than the 4GB version.
An unlocked RX 460 2GB to 1024 stream processors gives a lot for the price.

 

[Kanan]

The RX 460 isn't a bad card, but the 2GB version makes more sense IMO than the 4GB version.
An unlocked RX 460 2GB to 1024 stream processors gives a lot for the price.

Only if you play old or the so-called "competitive" games with it, like CS:GO, Dota 2, LoL, etc.

A few games don't run well with 2 GB, whether it's a 470 or a 460 isn't important then. Generally I like the 1050 Ti best at that bracket, but I'd take the 460 if it's a lot cheaper and I don't need more performance.

 

[EarthDog]

You are going to find many games, at 1080p, that will easily eclipse 2GB...even without AA. That can cause issues.

 

[ShurikN]

Cost difference would be justified in that case, but not for a 1050 which is only ~15-20% faster.

You have that mistaken with 1050Ti, a regular 1050 is on par with 460.