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and these are x4 60 finalizes the company's Polaris lineup this time with Polaris 11 the lower-end GPU the RX 460 has an MSRP of $110 but we'll see how that sticks obviously through they have you partner models as they roll out this is not a reference card so there will only be partner models and we don't know what the four and two gigabyte prices will shake out to be just yet but $110 is the recommended price from AMD the card we're testing is the sapphire RX 460 nitro and it is pre overclocked we'll talk with that in a moment in terms of testing we've added overwatch and dota 2 to our test bench specifically for this card it's a limited run of cards on those two games but it will give a better idea of performance with the lower end games on the screen now is the spec stable for the latest cards the rx 460 is pretty stripped down compared to the RX 470 and 480 his block diagram is on the screen now the RX 480 and 470 is a Polaris 10 GPU with the 470 removing forces and drop into 32 from 36 on the 480 and the RX 460 block diagram which is now on the screen shows the cards 14 see us and 896 stream processors the architecture is similar to previous chips we reviewed and we're still working with fourth gen GC ncu layout so that's all the same and still running 64 cores per Cu with 4 TM use per see you learn more about the architecture discussion in the article linked in the description below or we have the review and go into greater depth as for top-level specs we're looking at an AMD recommended clock rate of twelve hundred megahertz boost but there won't be a reference model so it's just partner decisions on the actual final clock rate the card will also ship in two and four gigabyte variants and we're not sure on the pricing of those at the time of filming but those prices will be added to the article again once that goes live and our model here is a 4 gigabyte nitro which is pre overclocked to 1250 mega Hertz from 1200 recommended and that's with a dual fan push cooler let's dive straight in the test bench is on the screen now and test methodology can be viewed on the website for full depth and drivers used we're starting with thermals which we actively measure ambient and create delta values for and you can see why with these screenshots endurance shows non delta readings but the rest is all Delta values here's a look at peak average load amateurs and idle temperatures the Sapphire rx 460 nitro operates warm as a result of its low fan rpm and that's mostly for silence reasons sapphires nitro also the 460 operates at 51 Celsius delta T over ambient though maintains a low idle by nature of the low power consumption of the Polaris 11 chip the RX 470 from sapphire the Platinum Edition which is a reference are X 480 cooler sits at 53 Celsius delta T but is thermally throttling at that point and runs a higher fan rpm hence the difference we discuss both of these in our review of the 470 and then again in the teardown of the card if you want to learn more about how that fan works and things like that here's a quick look at temperature over time this chart reveals the per second performance of the cards though the data is the same as the previous charts it's just been plotted against another axis moving to endurance tests we see the rx 416 by TroKar maintains a fairly flat clock rate which is ideal and that means that the clock is hitting and sticking to its 12 50 megahertz target and the temperatures fluctuate only within a range of about 72 to 75 Celsius and these by the way our diode values not Delta values the clock rate is properly stable with this variant of the rx 460 and is more than we can say for any of the reference cards from the GPU manufacturers out including the 480 and the GTX bounders edition cards the RX 460 is a low enough power chip that is able to carry reduced fan speed in favor of thermals with the nitro cooler and the fan spins at around a thousand to 1,200 rpm during most testing but we unfortunately cannot plot the per second fan speed at this time because the software doesn't measure it just yet moving on to power tests we test power draw at the wall so this is total system power draw using the same bench but with different cards not a per card power draw test the RX 460 nitro operates at 169 volt amps when loaded 100% with an idle output of 73 volt amps that places us between the gtx 750ti first gen maxwell card and the gtx at 9:50 second gen maxwell card the RX 460 operates well below the arch for 70's systems power drop by the way at 222 volt amps versus again the four sixties of 169 both hands moving on to game benchmarking again the method in the description below and that's where you'll find driver information things like that we did have some driver issues with some of the latest AMD updates 1673 particularly and 16.8 dot one also is not free of issues but we'll talk about that towards the end overwatch is an interesting title to benchmark mostly because it's got some quirks in its graphics menu restarting the game will occasionally reset some of the settings not sure what triggers that and the game also does not equally apply its preset graphics across all advanced settings for all hardware configurations for example a gtx 750ti will receive lower settings with the preset ultra than a gtx 950 even though you're still choosing ultra on both so the game is dynamically scaling its graphics settings even though all those options are still available and this means that anyone testing overwatch and playing it for that matter should ensure due diligence by clicking the Advanced tab and identifying that the settings are equal across all the tested hardware so if you're trying to validate your own gaming performance versus ours do that and make sure the settings on the screen that we have now match yours note this was also a small task compared to the other hardware configs as we're just adding overwatch for low-end cards at 1080p with our ultra settings the ones we configured by hand anyway we're seeing an output of about 67 FPS average on the sapphire rx 460 nitro card with a 53 fps one resent low in 52 0.1% low the lows are fairly tightly times an overwatch and produce note noticeable stutters during our testing comparatively the 2013 r9 270x reference card with stock clocks is performing at 73 FPS average 57 low and 55 0.1% lows to refresh everyone's memory that card sat in about the 150 dollar price range the majority of its life and above that is ranked the gtx 950 Strix version of the card with 2 gigabytes of vram and that sells about 160 dollars before rebates and that card is performing at 80 3.7 FPS average and maintain sixty seven and sixty four point seven lows at the bottom of the stack is the gtx 750ti SC with two gigabytes of vram performing close to the RX 460 and that's a 4.7 percent change from the 750 Ti to the rx 460 and here's the the depiction of percent change by the way with the rx 460 as the bay zero percent and you can just use this for reference of where they perform just for further reference we were hitting 42 FPS average an overwatch one at 1440p with the RX 460 not bad and if you dropped settings kind of hard you could play in your 60fps with 1440p let's move on to dota 2 our settings for this game are shown on the screen as well read the review link below for more information dota 2 isn't that demanding we were hitting 189 PS average on the RX 460 nitro with a 75 FPS 1% low and 50 0.1% low for comparison the r9 270x performed about equally at 120 points 7 FPS average and about the same low as the gtx 950 Strix operates at 1 45.7 average with a consistently lower 1% low though negligible to actual gameplay and nearly a 50 for FPS 0.1% low the bottom of the stack again contains the gtx 750ti which is about $100 these days and that's at 109 FPS average and plants the RX for 68% ahead of the gtx 750ti old to new and here's another percent change chart for ease for reading that information as that's on the screen the note that we're hitting 79 FPS average with 40 FPS 1% low as I'm thirty two point three FPS 0.1% lows with the rx 460 at 1440p using the same ultra settings let's move on to our normal test suite looking at doom with OpenGL first we see the rx 460 nitro at 45 FPS average with 1080p ultra settings large for 74 comparison push is about 76 FPS average with the 480 at 85 average Nvidia's GTX 1060 F II runs at 98.3 FPS average and let's look now at how Vulcan impacts that performance with Vulcan enabled we're operating at fifty six point eight FPS average on the rx 460 and it was playable before but is now more fluid with a 12 FPS gain and the rx 470 and 480 are outpacing a stock GTX 1060 reference card you can view our 470 and 1060 reviews if these numbers interest you switching over to 1440p with OpenGL only the rx 460 operates at twenty eight point seven FPS average not really playable especially considering the low values and the rx where 70 remains fairly playable at 1440p volcán doesn't help too much though does rhe if some of the workload when we look at these charts by shifting us up to 30 4.6 FPS average on the RX 460 and the RX 470 is now in excess of 60 FPS average of course the 460 is not really meant for 1440p either though it can handle the resolution with some games like dota 2 and sort of overwatch called duty black ops 3 is one of the best optimized titles on the bench with regard to graphics and framerate hit and we test with high settings so there's room to increase graphics options of performance allows at 1080p high the rx 460 outputs about 65 FPS average with 54 and 51 fps low is more or less the r9 380 X operates at 94 fps or a percent change of 45% from the 460 and 380 X and we decided to test on 1440p with the same settings out of curiosity 460 performs at 39 FPS at 1440p certainly not ideal but really not bad considering the price of the card and let's talk about this for a second this is a card that's priced in theory at 110 dollars I'm a Sharpie if it sticks and that's pushing 40 FPS average at 1440p the same could be said for the 470 480 from AMD or the 10 16 1070 from Nvidia this generation of cards from both vendors has clearly made 1440p a real possibility for play and the high-end cards previously we're hitting about these frame rates so we're really past that point now and that should shape your future monitor purchases GTA 5 at 1080p with very high in ultra settings operates at 44 FPS average with lows that dip below 30 fps planting it above the 750ti and below the r9 270x and 380 X large 460 would be capable of playing GTA 5 if you dip settings down too high but the rank in between cars remains linear across the board so you can extrapolate performance from this chart you can view more FPS charts on the website link in the description below and those include Metro last light Mordor ashes of the singularity Mirror's Edge catalyst and some additional thermal information overclocked in the RX 460 is the same as the 470 and 480 we use wot man for that because no aftermarket software is available as of yet and you can see our clock stepping and progression on the screen now our clock rate settled at about thirteen hundred megahertz with an 1800 megahertz memory overclock using maxed out V core at 11:15 note that measurement software is fairly infantile at this point so we don't have a good way to check chip power draw until software updates at least not consistently and note also that memory clock is restricted to a 50 megahertz OC which seems to have been instated with 16.7 3 onward and the next drivers may resolve this from what Andy has told us the overclock puts us about 50 megahertz over the pre overclock from sapphire or nearly a hundred megahertz off of the reference clock rate recommendation from AMD and here's a look at the frame rate differences we're not seeing much of a performance jump on average from 1250 to $12.99 a megahertz the overclock generally about one maybe two fps or a couple of percentage points maximum a quick note on drivers before the conclusion we had serious issues with the drivers for this card it's similar to what we saw on 60 not 7.3 that we reported on a separate video and 16.8 dot one those issues seem to stem from the sixteen seven three update it's probably built on the same package so that makes sense the drivers hard crash and create sort of colored screen output screen Orange whatever random color occasional blue screens black screens basically dyes we had issues with the card recovering from a display sleep so if the display turns itself off for power saving we had issues where it would just be black and not come back on without a restart there's also the restriction on memory overclocked though Andy did tell us that that should be removed in the next update and after testing on three different benches we finally figured out that to say when Andy shader cash and reverting to use application settings as the option within the drivers fixes most of these issues at least temporarily or works around them or whatever you want to use luckily we already test this way but it did take hours to figure out and can only really be done by getting lucky enough and avoiding a hey mod enough to make the change before it crashes anyway Andy told us that there's a fix rolling out for some of these issues at least so we'll keep an eye on that and let you know if it changes the rx 460 is positioned in a somewhat uncontested market right now sort of like the 470 was until its pricing was higher than we were told anyway at least for this model but the 460 even though it's uncontested in it's sort of $100 market and why I say uncontested I mean very specifically for current as a new generation architecture the position is weird because if you have something like a two 70 X or a 750ti this is really not an upgrade or not much of one from the 750ti and actually downgrade from the 270 X so you have one of those cards this is off your list already you should be looking at a higher skew what it's really targeted toward is something like a new system build where you don't have anything you're not upgrading and that makes the rx 460 tougher to justify than the rx 470 480 and gtx 1060 cards on average it's an underperformed by design the Polaris 11 chip is pretty weak it's about 2 2.2 teraflops and it's even beaten by 2 gigabyte gtx 950 s as the 4 gigabyte v Ram will commonly choke on wraps or cores or something else before choking on its memory capacity the gtx 950 is priced a bit higher than the RX 460 MSRP the board partners will be all over the map as usual so we will really just have to wait and see how the pricing shakes out ultimately Polaris 11 is sort of meant to be a laptop chip that's something we've talked about a bit now and it makes more sense in something like a notebook where you can't have the higher power draw of some of the other chips and it's not producing as much heat so the thermal solutions on it is difficult to design so it kind of makes sense maybe there but we'll test that once it's in laptops if we get one as a video card the performance isn't really that acceptable to me I especially with the driver issues we encountered that those will probably be fixed so it may be scrub that a little bit and see how it comes out in our future update videos but as a video card standalone in a vacuum of drivers that are a non-issue it still makes more sense to get an rx 470 if you can afford it and it's less than $200 I'd watch our other video for why it doesn't make sense more than that a gtx 1060 or 480 if you're pushing pretty far into the 250 plus price range and that is a really big push or if you're trying to stay below 200 and the 470 is a non option or it's a little too expensive you can drop down to about 150 $140 and do something like a gtx 950 i know it's last gen but there's no 1050 to replace it right now and it's still a better performing than this upwards of 25% in some cases and it's about the same price as probably some of the board partner models will be or if you want AMD the r9 380 is also generally fluctuating between 152 these days less than 170 bucks on average depending where you look and that's also a card that's a better performer than this one is so both of those even though the last gen it's not really that old of an architecture it's still fairly new and they're better performers and they're not far in price and they'll be in stock so that's where I would push most users if you're a really strict budget maybe this can work if you really can't stretch the extra twenty thirty dollars whatever it may be for something better but I would try to do that honestly depending on what you're doing so we'll see where board partners shake out other prices recommendations one hundred ten dollars I'm assuming some of the four gigabyte bottles will be encroaching on $150.00 territory but article in the description below for the actual final prices when we do have those will update their retailers will be dumping stock the older cards so if you're again at a budget that's the place to look as always thank you for watching patreon illegal postal video if you want to helps out directly funding these testing efforts and subscribe as always to make sure you don't miss the next content I think that clears off our new GPU queue but there's more coming in and we can't escape them so there will be more subscribe for that I'll see you all next time you I think if I push this