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ASUS Radeon RX 460 STRIX OC 4 GB

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AMD's Radeon RX 460 promises entry level gaming for the masses, with pricing starting at $109. We are reviewing the ASUS RX 460 STRIX OC, which comes with 4 GB instead of 2 GB and an additional 6-pin power connector, at a $140 price point.

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The RX460 2GB is the best choice for anyone to spend about $100 for a GPU. This one for $140 isn't the best choice though as @W1zzard wrote in the conclusion.
 
Remember when mid-range cards used to overclock insanely high? Like the HD 7850?
Yeah, this is not happening anymore.

And the fact that 28nm maxwell cards beat this one if perf\watt makes me lose my faith.
If you were told me that in HD4870\GTX260 era in 2008, i would hold my head and drink myself to sleep out of this depressing fact. Everything that is being said about Polaris' efficiency is sugar-coated, even as bad as it can sound.
 
$140 for this makes zero sense.

Save up ladies, you can buy more performance.... honest.
 
Hmm, wondering how much slower cards without 6-pin connectors will be. Power consumption is still surprisingly high, I really hoped it would be very much lower than 75W. Does not really bode well considering laptop market.

BTW, is this thing really pcie x8 card? There are pins for x16 but are they connected, vanilla RX 460 should be pcie x8 card.

Edit. Ahh that GPU-Z screenie on OC page says PCIe 3.0 x8, so that it most likely is.

Remember when mid-range cards used to overclock insanely high? Like the HD 7850?
Yeah, this is not happening anymore.

Hmm I thought this is low end. Comparable to hd 7750 in that era. But yeah is it manufacturing process or what, but that OC is really really meaningless.
 
Hmm, wondering how much slower cards without 6-pin connectors will be.
Not more than 5%

BTW, is this thing really pcie x8 card? There are pins for x16 but are they connected, vanilla RX 460 should be pcie x8 card.
Yes, ASUS just put the golden traces on the socket, which end after a cm or so. You can see on the PCB shots that they have no terminating circuitry
 
is this card aslo used for mining? cuz those prices makes no other sense - yea I know it is cheap - but performance and price/performace are WORSE than previous gen rebrands (that orginally was launched god knows how many years back)... in fact I would like to see this vs Intel iGPU.... yea - I know ti whould be better than Skylake iGPU and iGPU is nothing to be excited about anyways, but I can bet, that those who shed 140$+for this weak crap would not be happy to see that review
 
GTX 950, which has similar performance and power consumption is available at $129. This card is pointless at any price above $100.
 
$140 for this makes zero sense.

Save up ladies, you can buy more performance.... honest.
Yup, just checked and $160 buys you a 960 which much faster than this (if you don't play Rise of Tomb Raider). Plus, a two-slot cooling solution on a budget card? Really?
 
My biggest issue with the RX460/470 isn't really that they are totally awful, it's that they would have to be priced down quite a bit more. The RX460 doesn't seem like it's doing the proper generational thing, it's not creating a new performance segment, they're dropping a card into the same performance segment that existed for the past 1.5-2 years and hoping that it's the THING. I don't get the strategy.
 
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460 still with drivers very inmature, with Async, 4GB , DP 1.4 / HDR, etc

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950 2gb with drivers legacy , with out Async , highter power consumtion , oh wait..


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460 still with drivers very inmature, with Async, 4GB , DP 1.4 / HDR, etc

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950 2gb with drivers legacy , with out Async , highter power consumtion , oh wait..


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Except Async isn't magically going to make these grudge worthy framerates in most games to 50-60+, and the 2GBs more of VRAM seems mostly a waste with this type of horsepower behind it. This card has no balance, it would've been fine at 2GB, maybe 3GB. Before the argument piques that this is made for CSGO, League and such, true. But at the same time built in Intel even does that fairly well now, let alone a plethora of GPUs you could get ridiculously cheap where it doesn't so much matter if driver support is waning or if it has less ram.
 
With at least 50% the performance of a RX470, it's a nice card
But with it's current price, it's a bad buy

Looks like if you go for the Red team, it's either 4GB RX470 or 8GB RX480
 
This card shouldn't have had a 6-pin power (75W max) and such a robust cooling, not to mention the price tag. $100 for the 2GB and ~$115 for 4GB, and I'm talking custom builds here, not reference (which doesn't exist anyway). At $140 there's really no point.
 
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GTX 950, which has similar performance and power consumption is available at $129. This card is pointless at any price above $100.

Should be much cheaper for sure, but this would be a better buy than a 950 if it was priced around $120.

With at least 50% the performance of a RX470, it's a nice card
But with it's current price, it's a bad buy

Looks like if you go for the Red team, it's either 4GB RX470 or 8GB RX480

Yeah, although in England I am seeing Sapphire Fury Tri-X's go for ÂŁ300 new or ÂŁ250 second hand. Not bad.
 
This card shouldn't have had a 6-pin power (75W max) and such a robust cooling, not to mention the price tag. $100 for the 2GB and ~$115 for 4GB, and I'm talking custom builds here, not reference (which doesn't exist anyway). At $140 there's really no point.
i wonder how this asus card compares to the gigabyte windforce 2X RX 460 2GB no-6-pin
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2016/08/08/gigabyte-radeon-rx-460-windforce-2x-oc-2gb/13

pretty sure those two extra gb memory will use more watts on asus cards etc
 
Remember when mid-range cards used to overclock insanely high? Like the HD 7850?
Yeah, this is not happening anymore.

And the fact that 28nm maxwell cards beat this one if perf\watt makes me lose my faith.
If you were told me that in HD4870\GTX260 era in 2008, i would hold my head and drink myself to sleep out of this depressing fact. Everything that is being said about Polaris' efficiency is sugar-coated, even as bad as it can sound.

yeah.. I remember that. I still have an MSI 7850 Power Edition OCed to 1290 mhz (on my extreme profile) with "only" 1.250v. Remember.. Stock card is 860Mhz, so that's a 430 mhz improvement over reference or, in other words, an woopi 50% overclock! In some benchs/games, like BF3 or Metro LL, i had an extra ~40% boost. It's like... a 7950 boost ed. or close to GTX670 which is 2 classes above.

Even today, like.. 4 years after it's release date, i still think that this is the best GPU for overclock. i never see a card with a stock air cooler (here on TPU or other websites) doing ~400mhz OC, except Pitcairn Pro.

For instance, @Wizzard achieved 1245/1545 on a Powercolor PCS+ with the default fan and voltage settings. The Msi Power Edition OC wasn't that good in this review, only 1120mhz, still, +18% increase. Performance increase is much higher on MSI than what we see on other brands. I don't know why but i noticed it.

So, despite this RX 460 is on the same level of performance and price as 7850/ R7 265/ R7 370, i think those are much better cards, specially the original Pitcairn.
 
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The RX460 2GB is the best choice for anyone to spend about $100 for a GPU. This one for $140 isn't the best choice though as @W1zzard wrote in the conclusion.

I bought a GTX 950 for $100 last fall and OC'd it will beat this 460 easily. Power consumption on the 460 is higher on a half sized process! What happened to the purported huge improvement in efficiency? You can buy <75W GTX 950s also. AMD isn't even matching Maxwell on FPS/W, and FPS/$ is probably a wash even when prices settle down.

And forget about AMD in laptops. I was hoping for some competition there, but it will be just like last generation. Pascal will destroy Polaris.
 
I wouldn't dare to assume that he just took the results of an aftermarket overclocked RX 460 4GB to deduce price/perf of the RX 460 2GB, which is almost a tier lower performance wise(~20%). That'd be really bad for this web's credibility.

I'm kind of annoyed how many sites lately side with the "underdog" and try to put its products into a better light on the expense of the consumers, this whole Polaris line up would be quite the epitome of it. They aren't doing the consumers or the hardware scene any favors by doing this, quite the opposite actually. If the underdog isn't even trying to offer a better deal than the competition and his product strategy doesn't make any sense, it's time for him to go, he doesn't deserve to gain market share like this and normally wouldn't be able to, don't support this behavior or it won't get any better moving forward.

I don't know if the hardware sites even care anymore, it's just the business as usual year after year, just some companies trying to milk the consumers with the same generational performance leaps even though the technology and manufacturing costs change significantly. I'd probably get disillusioned and apathetic as well, why even risk aggroing the wrath of fanboys if you don't really have your own skin in it, just recommend that crappy product and move on...
 
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460 still with drivers very inmature, with Async, 4GB , DP 1.4 / HDR, etc

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950 2gb with drivers legacy , with out Async , highter power consumtion , oh wait..


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Immature drivers: I don't buy a product based on how it may or may not perform in six months if AMD gets off their butts and fixes their drivers, I buy a product based on how it performs when reviewed at its release.
Async: Requires game support, and even then is not gonna make a card that's slow as dog s**t perform decently.
4GB: As already noted, absolutely pointless on this card and just adds to the cost.
DP 1.4 / HDR: You really think the people who will be buying this card care about that?

Also, Maxwell does have async, but I see you're one of those mentally handicapped AMD fanboys who doesn't understand what async actually is. It's okay, you can go sit in the corner with all of the other special ones and have a Polaris group wank.
 
price made this product usless crap (seriosly check out if irisPro does not beat this before you buy one). nice to see wizzard also places this product as low as he could - 7.8 - is lowest I have seen - lets face it, he can not give 1.0 and "do not waste your time or money with this crap" award (or simillar) - because he must still please the vendors and be nice to them....
 
I bought a GTX 950 for $100 last fall and OC'd it will beat this 460 easily. Power consumption on the 460 is higher on a half sized process! What happened to the purported huge improvement in efficiency? You can buy <75W GTX 950s also. AMD isn't even matching Maxwell on FPS/W, and FPS/$ is probably a wash even when prices settle down.

And forget about AMD in laptops. I was hoping for some competition there, but it will be just like last generation. Pascal will destroy Polaris.
That ASUS isn't the best offer as @W1zzard wrote ok? A not oced with lower than 75W power consumption and a $110 price tag IS imho. Don't make me write it again. :toast:
 
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