With the Radeon RX 460 AMD is going to upgrage their entry-level offerings on discrete graphics cards. Meanwhile information on this card's performance has shown up on videocardz.com and apparently we want to share this piece of information with you guys as well.

According to slides coming directly from AMD, which have been posted up by the well-known guys from Videocardz the RX 460 should be approximately 1.2 to 1.3 times faster than the former Radeon R7 260X in games like Dota 2, Counter Strike Global Offensive, Rocket League and Grand Theft Auto V.

Like the R7 260X the RX 460 also features 896 stream processors, which have been arranged in 14 compute units. What's different is the number of TMUs. While the R7 260X featured 56 TMUs the RX 460 only comes with 48 TMUs. In the case of the ROPs both cards feature the same number. What makes the RX 460 perform better than the R7 260X is the fact, that it has a higher boost clock of 1200 MHz, compared to the 1100 MHz the R7 260X had to deal with. Furthermore the memory on the R7 260X was running at 1625 MHz whereas the memory on the RX 460 runs at 1750 MHz. It's also great to see that there is going to be a 4GB variant of this card and not only a 2 GB model. The memory interface on both cards is 128 bit wide.

Thanks to the new process technology the RX 460 is quite a bit more efficient in terms of power consumption having a TDP of <75 Watt. This means that the samll Polaris 11 card can be powered by the PCI Express slot only without the need for an additional 6-pin power connector, making ideal for HTPC builds as well.

At this point in time it shouldn't take long anymore until we see the first reviews hitting the web. We're rather curious to find out what these small cards are capable of we'll definitely keep you posted.



Source: Videocardz