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another week another GPU release it seems this time around we're checking out the new Radian rx 460 the GP for gamers that aren't willing to sacrifice everything else in their life for the sake of high resolution ultra qaulity gameplay based on p'lice 11 the RX 460 will likely be the most affordable gaming GPU AMD released in 2016 unfortunately due to timing I don't actually know the MSRP for the rx 460 is aimed yet to release that information as I'm putting this review together there are three days to go before the official release and unfortunately I can't wait until the last minute to finalize everything if you're watching this on launch day the 8th I'm currently away in Bangkok containing an Nvidia launch event for a new unnamed high-end product which I'll no doubt be feeling you guys in on shortly so keep your eye out for a video later this week covering the event and any other shenanigans I get up to while staying in Bangkok although I don't know the official MSRP I can take an educated guess based on my findings and I'll do so in the final stages of this review once again I'll be using my new sub $200 graphics card testing rig powered by a modestly clock skylight core i3 6100 T processor this system does a good job of representing the kind of rigs gamers purchasing the affordable graphics cards will likely be running the system is built into the fractal design to find an OS and features a gigabyte z170 and Wi-Fi motherboard the only unrealistic hardware used is a 16 gigabyte ddr4 memory kit a 2 terabyte SSD and an 850 watt power supply the 2 terabyte SSD has been used simply because I need to install the heap of games for testing and the 850 watt power supply is simply because I had a spare unfortunately as was the case with the RX 470 review I had very limited time to get this review done so again just 12 games been tested at one resolution though it is the extremely popular 1080p res in the coming weeks I'll be preparing a few RX 470 and rx 460 partner card reviews this is where I'll focus on overclocking performance although I'm using a factory overclocked sapphire rx 460 for testing it's being underclock to meet the reference AMD clock specifications this has been done to keep the results fair as all other cards tested have also been done at the reference AMD and NVIDIA specifications ok so that gets the important stuff out of the way let's get to the results shall we we'll kick off things again with Superman somehow worthy foe here the 60 produced 47 frames per second with the minimum of 33 this was right around the performance of the gen 1 r7 370 and 45% slower than the RX 417 this is honestly a slightly bigger gap than I'd expected between these two cards for 750 Ti uses however it's a big step up and you stand again 34% performance in this game next up is Star Wars Battlefront and here the 460 rendered 53 FPS on the high quality setting at 1080p this time it was a little closer to the recently release 470 coming at 40% slower was also 40% faster than the 750 Ti black ops 3 was very playable on the high quality setting with anti-aliasing disabled the 460 was good for 54 fps and a 47 FPS minimum 13% faster than the r7 370 which made 48 fps performance was virtually on par with the GTX 950 as the 460 was 2% faster next I tested Duman Vulcan with the ultra quality preset and a a disabled the 460 made a healthy 81 FPS here was a considerable 62 percent faster than the 750ti Vulcan also allowed the 460 to shoot ahead of the 950 by 13% but it was 46 percent behind the 470 I dialed Mirror's Edge catalyst down to medium for these cards and here the 460 managed 50 fps this was 28% faster than the 750 Ti which was one of the closer margins seen between these cards the 460 was also within 32 percent of the 470 and 36% of the 480 the hardware friendly triple-a title overwatch was next and at 1080p on Ultra you can expect around 73 FPS from the 416 this seems really good but it was only three percent faster than the 370 and was five percent slower than 750 Ti this is the only game with a 750 Ti I had a slight edge Far Cry primal is a demanding game and here we found that on the high quality setting the 460 could produce 42 FPS this is 24% more than the 750 Ti nine percent less than the GTX 950 and thirty percent less than the i9 380 in our Lord of the Rings themed game the 460 made 43 FPS on the ultra quality setting which isn't bad this was 50% less than the rx 480 and 10% less than the GTX 950 performance was pretty much on par with the 370 though with the 460 managing just a single extra frame interestingly though the 460 had a much higher minimum frame rate the division is another demanding game and here the 460 could be 39 FPS on average this is just about on par with the GTX 950 and Ape faster than 370 750ti users can expect a 39% performance boost in this game at 1080p I tested rise of the Tomb Raider in its DirectX 12 mode with a very high quality setting and the 460 produced 49 frames per second this was slightly higher than the 370 and 29% faster than the 750ti total war Warhammer was also run through its DirectX 12 test and the four sixties performance was pretty decent it beat the 370 by a solid 15 percent and the 950 by 31 percent was also a little closer to the 470 and 480 that it typically has been this time with in 37 and 39 percent respectively the last game I looked at was The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt here the 460 was on par with the 950 with a 40 FPS average was also 38% faster than the 750ti and 8% faster than the 370 I recorded the total system power consumption after 20 minutes of gameplay on average the RX 460 configuration consumed 139 watts which is good and certainly a step forward for AMD however it's not wildly impressive when you compare it to the previous generations gtx 950 which was basically on par performance wise overall but only use 9 more watts it's obviously important to note that the card tested is not in fact a reference card but sapphires nitro Edition when it comes to power consumption and temperatures the cooler looks pretty big on this thing but interestingly it still ran at 75 degrees the card was virtually dead silent though so obviously this could be improved with a more aggressive fan curve well there you have it this low-end card was never going to be a world beater so our overall opinion is very much going to be price dependent unfortunately at this point I don't have the pricing information as mentioned before we make any conclusions and speculate on price let's take a look at the how this card compared directly with some of its competition the RX 460 was overall 41% slower than the Big Brother 470 and I guess this was a little more of a gap than I was expecting I'm definitely hoping now that this card comes in around 40% cheaper compared to the r7 370 the performance was really quite close there's only a couple of outliers being Far Cry Cod and total wars DirectX 12 test aside from these you shouldn't expect too much difference between these two cards and the average overall was 3.6 percent in favor of the RX 460 overall the performance was on par with the GTX 950 though there's certainly some decent swings either way turtle wars DirectX 12 test was a massive outlier and here the 460 was 31% faster there were some games that favored the 950 quite considerably - including overwatch Tomb Raider and directx12 curiously and Far Cry the results were fairly consistent in comparison to the r9 380 overall there's a 30% deficit to the popular 380 and it will be interesting to crunch the numbers and see how the cost per frame works out compared to the gtx 960 the RX 460 was 17% slower on average results were also fairly consistent here and again it'll be interesting to see the cost per frame data the RX 460 is shaping up as a solid upgrade for users of the 750 Ti the average improvement scene was 33.6% and Vulcan allowed the 460 to shoot ahead by a massive 62 percent I'm still really looking forward to being able to compare all of these cards with other games that utilize low-level API during the game where users a better offer the 750 Ti is overwatch where the 460 was 5% slower so as I talked about earlier the success of this card will certainly come down to pricing given what we've seen here I expect the rx 460 to cost around 110 dollars at that price it comes at a similar cost per frame as the RX 470 if it does end up being the correct price it means that when compared to the previous generation r7 370 which I might add was a first-generation GCM part budget gamers are getting a slightly more efficient graphics card and saving 40 to 50 dollars in the process overall the radian rxt 460 is a competent 1080p gaming solution providing you're willing to dial down the quality settings little in the more extreme triple-a titles what do you guys think let me know in the comments like you always do I'm your host Matt as always and I'll see you guys next time youtubers like me depend on 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