AMD RX 460: Low price is the biggest selling point performance improvement

Tencent Digital (Liu Sha) This year, the computer graphics war is undoubtedly more attention. NVIDIA has brought a series of powerful new graphics cards such as the GTX 1080. Although the price is high, the highlight is the very large increase in performance. With the addition of virtual reality, it has attracted many players' attention.

AMD, it seems that NVIDIA is not so radical, the new series of RX graphics card is more main cost-effective, which RX 460 positioning gaming, the price is only starting from 120 US dollars (about 800 yuan), supports DirectX 9, can achieve 1080P / 90fps picture quality performance. In addition, the RX 460 is said to replace the NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti, enabling home theater PC applications and solving power-starved situations. So, is the actual situation so? Take a look at the test experience together.

Main specifications

Based on the latest 14nm Polaris architecture, the AMD RX 460 has a computational unit and stream processor that is roughly half that of the RX 470, positioning the low-end entry market. Of course, its performance part can fully meet the eSports game requirements, and is optimized for eSports. At the same time, it can achieve H.264 video encoding of up to 1080P/120fps.

Currently, the AMD RX 460 is sold at US$120 for the 2GB version (approximately RMB800) and US$150 for a 4GB version (approximately RMB998). The price is quite low, and a standardized dual-slot design is adopted. Compatible with a variety of motherboards.

Interfaces, in addition to HDMI 2.0b, also have DVI-D and DisplayPort 1.4, can achieve 4K output, but basically can only be applied in the broadcast aspect. In addition, it also supports H.265 decoding, Radeon wattman overclocking tools and FreeSync features, very mainstream. Let's take a look at the actual game frame rate test below.

E-sports games

First, explain the test environment. The computer configuration used by PCWorld is Intel Core i7-5960X processor, XFX RX 460 4GB overclocking version (overclocking 20MHz), ASUS X99 Deluxe motherboard, Corsair H100i water cooled radiator, Corsair LPX DDR4 RAM, Intel 730 series 480GB SSD solid state drive, Obsidian 750D chassis, AX1200i 308 watts power supply, the system is Windows 10 Professional Edition.

Since it is the main product of the e-sports market, it is natural to first look at the performance of the RX 460 in mainstream e-sports games. Basically, the test results are not very satisfactory, such as "Dota 2" 1080P high-definition frame rate is only 30fps, "watch pioneer" 1080P low-quality only 35fps, especially the latter is a high liquidity A one-person perspective shooting game requires at least 60fps to have a better feel.

Ultimately, PCWorld believes that if you want to improve the configuration of eSports game PCs, you can basically say goodbye to AMD RX480. So, what is the support effect of RX 460 on mainstream home PC games? Take a look at the next test.

"Tom Clancy: Blockade" Test

"Tom Clancy: Blockade of the whole territory" is an open world third-person RPG shooting game launched by Ubisoft this year. It adopts a snow lotus engine and has high performance requirements for graphics cards. Through the test results, it can be seen that the AMD RX 460 has higher frame rate performance than the NVIDIA GTX 750Ti under 1080P high-definition and medium-definition quality, but the improvement effect is basically around 5 to 10 fps, which is not very obvious. You know, the GTX 750Ti is already a two-year veteran on the market.

Tomb Raider: Rise Test

Next is "Tomb Raider: The Rise", this game is relatively more suitable for NVIDIA graphics. The test is only for the DirectX 11 mode, and the performance of the AMD RX 480 is basically in line with expectations. Just like the GTX 750Ti is a little bit faster, it cannot achieve the 60fps standard even with low image quality.

"Singularity" test

The game "Singularity Dust" supports DirectX 12, so it can test the support performance of AMD RX 460. It can be seen that in the DX 12 mode, the AMD RX 460 has a performance improvement of about 3fps with the image quality, and the performance is undoubtedly better, but the 10% increase does not seem to have much effect.

Power consumption and heat dissipation

PCWorld also tested the power consumption and heat dissipation of the AMD RX 460. It took its peak data by running a 4K resolution "Blocking" and took idle data on the Windows desktop for three minutes. It found that the power consumption of the AMD RX 460 was actually It is higher than the GTX 750Ti, and it's hotter.

summary

Obviously, the biggest selling point of the ADM RX 460 is still price, and it has indeed fulfilled its promise. It is more powerful than the NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti, but it is very limited. Of course, it has added more video decoding standards, new features, and ecological technologies, which the GTX 750Ti cannot achieve, but for home users, the increase is too small to warrant replacement. As to whether it can become the preferred graphics card for e-sports organizations, it can only be judged by market sales.

Source: pcworld

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