XFX has created a new Radeon RX 460 graphics card that could be a holy grail of those looking to create a completely silent system, featuring a completely passive heatsink.

Spotted by Expreview.com, the passive XFX Radeon RX 460 features a dual-slot design and comes with a hefty heatsink slapped on top of AMD's smaller Polaris 11 GPU. Although it does not have any fans, the GPU allegedly hits around 33 degrees in idle and 62 degrees under load. Of course, these temperatures will solely depend on the airflow inside the case.

In case you missed it, the Radeon RX 460 packs 896 Stream Processors, 48 TMUs and 16 ROPs and works at 1090MHz base and 1200MHz GPU Boost clocks, in its reference version. XFX probably left the GPU at reference as it is hard enough to passively cool it even if it is not factory-overclocked. XFX also equipped it with 4GB of GDDR5 memory, paired up with a 128-bit memory interface.

The passive XFX Radeon RX 460 graphics card could also be perfect for HTPC builds, as long as you get a HTPC PC case that can fit dual-slot graphics cards which are slightly higher, as it does not require any additional PCI-Express power connectors since its TDP is below 75W and only needs power from the PCI-Express slot.

Unfortunately, passive XFX RX 460 is currently only available in Asia and we are not sure if it will show up in the rest of the world but it is certainly an interesting RX 460 version.







Source: Expreview.com.