The RX 460, meanwhile, is really a budget counterpart to last year’s Radeon R9 Nano. Aside from the Radeon RX 480, two more graphics cards from the Radeon RX series will be dished out in the days to come.
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The Radeon 460 is based on AMD’s Polaris 11 GPU.
Regarding the specs of the RX 490, it is rumored that in able for it to match the 4K gaming requirements, it will have a large memory interface of more than 256 bit. The board’s capacity is at 120 watts with the card’s base clock speed at 926 MHz and 1,206 MHz while on boost speeds. On the Sapphire Nitro Radeon RX 480 4GB it is factory overclocked to 1306MHz on the core and 7.5Gbps on the memory. The RX 460 is equipped with a 1200MHz boost clock with a memory clock of 7Gbps. Even better: Both cards will hit the streets in the very near future. The card now has a shroud covering its entire length rather than just a heatsink and fan over the GPU. The 460 (with its narrow bus but slightly higher clock rate) can push a respectable 112 GB/s throughput, while the 470’s memory configuration allows for 211 GB/s throughput.
You can even change the colors of the LED, for your own customized design.
The RX 460 features a severely cut-down version of Polaris compared to its pricier cousins, with half as many ROPs and less than half as many compute units and stream processors as the RX 470. The RX 460 is tipped to be priced close to $100. The company is claiming this video card is capable of wringing 60+ FPS with anti-aliasing turned on at 1080p for visually demanding games like Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3, and Grand Theft Auto V. We think most would be proud to have such a sharp-looking card in their rig.
Let’s fire up the review, but not before you’ve had a peek.
Reference cards will have three DisplayPort 1.3 outputs and one HDMI 2.0 port, with no legacy DVI port. Exact pricing will be known when the card launches on August 4. And just like its RX 460 sibling, it will also support games on DirectX 12 and Vulkan. The RX 460 2GB model is expected to cost $99, while the 4GB model will cost $119. The target market for the less powerful RX 460 is the eSports market.
The yet-to-be-revealed GPU is also believed to be the so-called the RX 490 since the leaked slide from AMD showed the RX 490 terminology for the company’s next-generation graphics card.
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For the time being, what you see above will be the product stack starting with today’s availability of the Radeon RX 480.
