AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
The AMD Radeon RX 460 is an entry-level gaming graphics card for desktop PCs. It was announced it August 2016 and is based on the smaller Polaris 11 chip (123 mm²), which is manufactured in a 14 nm FinFET process. The GPUs RX 470 and RX 480 on the other hand are based on the bigger Polaris 10 chip (232 mm²). The RX 460 uses 14 out of 16 Compute Units, all 16 ROPs, 56 TMUs, four 32-bit memory controller and 1 MB L2-cache. AMD specifies the clock with 1080 (base) up to 1200 MHz (Boost), but custom cards can have slightly higher clocks (like our test card from XFX at 1220 MHz). Contrary to Polaris 10, Polaris 11 supports Power Gating between the individual Compute Units. This will result in a lower consumption with partial workloads in particular.
Depending on the memory equipment (2 or 4 GB GDDR5), the gaming performance of the RX 460 can differ quite a bit. Memory intensive games like Doom , Black Ops 3 or Mirror's Edge clearly suffer from just 2 GB. The 4 GB model is slightly faster than the mobile GeForce GTX 965M (refresh) as well as the desktop MSI Radeon R7 370 in our tests. This means the card is best suited for modern games in Full-HD at high details. The RX 460 is particularly convincing in DirectX 12 and Vulkan games.
Polaris 11 is up to date in terms of features . It supports DirectX 12, Vulkan, DisplayPort 1.3 HBR (1.4 Ready), HDMI 2.0, FreeSync, HDR, and H.265 de- and encoding.
Thanks to the 14 nm FinFET process, the power consumption was significantly reduced compared to a similarly fast R7 370. The RX 460 is also much more frugal compared to the RX 470 and 480 and only needs a bit more power than the expensive GTX 1070 Founders Edition while idling. It is also much more frugal than the old R7 370 and roughly on par with the Maxwell chips (GTX 950 - 960) under load.
Radeon RX 400 Series Codename Polaris 11 / Baffin XT Architecture Polaris Pipelines 896 - unified Core Speed 1090 - 1200 (Boost) MHz Memory Speed 7000 MHz Memory Bus Width 128 Bit Memory Type GDDR5 Max. Amount of Memory 4 GB Shared Memory no API DirectX 12, OpenGL Vulkan Power Consumption 75 Watt Transistor Count 3 Billion technology 14 nm Features DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0, AMD FreeSync Date of Announcement 08.08.2016
Benchmarks 3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
1916 Points (6%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
1731 Points (5%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
307888 Points (36%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
20429 Points (22%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
34892 Points (9%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
5166 Points (2%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
5701 Points (6%)
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
8868 Points (13%)
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
8597 Points (7%)
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Unigine Valley 1.0 - Unigine Valley 1.0 DX
23.9 fps (8%)
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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
412 fps (3%)
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GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
129 fps (8%)
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GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Onscreen
25.2 fps (1%)
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GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen
101 fps (0%)
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
782 Samples/s (4%)
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
1554 Samples/s (3%)
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ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
4540 points (5%)
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Power Consumption - Furmark Stress Test Power Consumption - external Monitor *
169 Watt (24%)
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Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
162 Watt (23%)
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Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra Power Efficiency - external Monitor
0.1 Points per Watt (14%)
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
41.1 [X] Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming Desktop XFX Radeon RX 460 Intel Core i7-8086K 3.7GHz
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17.8 [X] Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming Desktop XFX Radeon RX 460 Intel Core i7-8086K 3.7GHz
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9 fps, P1:
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144 [X] Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming Desktop XFX Radeon RX 460 746942
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129 fps, max:
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119 fps, max:
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113 [X] Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming Desktop XFX Radeon RX 460 746942
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94 fps, max:
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36.4 [X] Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming Desktop XFX Radeon RX 460 746942
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27 fps, max:
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25.3 [X] Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming Desktop XFX Radeon RX 460 746942
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20 fps, max:
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11 fps, max:
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89.6 [X] Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming Desktop XFX Radeon RX 460 Intel Core i7-8086K 3.7GHz
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76 fps, max:
112 fps
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37 [X] Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming Desktop XFX Radeon RX 460 Intel Core i7-8086K 3.7GHz
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31 fps, max:
44 fps
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69 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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26.6 fps, P1:
62.5 fps, max:
137 fps
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34 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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18.9 fps, P1:
30.3 fps, max:
142 fps
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21.3 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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14.3 fps, P1:
16.9 fps, max:
133 fps
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12.9 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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5.33 fps, P1:
9.26 fps, max:
101 fps
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120 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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90 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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73 fps
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51 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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83 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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72 fps, max:
94 fps
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23.8 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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20 fps, max:
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16.3 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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14 fps, max:
19 fps
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144 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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131 fps, max:
157 fps
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65 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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56 fps, max:
69 fps
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56.7 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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50 fps, max:
60 fps
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31.2 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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29 fps, max:
33 fps
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23.1 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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21 fps, max:
24 fps
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213 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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169 fps, max:
237 fps
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167 fps, max:
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87 fps, max:
179 fps
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120 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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105 fps, max:
131 fps
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34.7 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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28 fps, max:
39 fps
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21.6 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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15.8 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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4.2 [X] XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB, Asus X299 Prime Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz
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3 fps, max:
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