we don't usually focus on $100 video cards it just doesn't seem to be what
you guys want I mean seriously in the last year of graphics card launches our
most successful video covering them is lonus being all like holy to a $5,000
cuadro m6 th000 and our second most
popular is the launch review of the 1080 a card most viewers can't afford not
knocking you guys it's just really expensive and not a great value compared
to its little brother the bottom line is that it seems like the internet would
rather watch us react to a Lamborghini than give a square level-headed review
of a Civic but that won't stop us and we're back at it again with a review of
the rx460 a video card designed for mainstream and Esports games at 1080P
and aimed squarely at the1 100ish dollar
price point the sort of I guess I'll need to address the absolute mess that
is graphics card pricing these days
cooler Masters master case maker 5 features their free form modular system
allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours at the link in the
video description let's begin with the look at
graphics card pricing that I promised the current AMD RX product stack
officially goes from 99 for a 2 gig
rx460 all the way up in pretty well spaced increments to 23 $39 for the 8
gig rx480 but this is all according to the suggested price list that they give
to us when we're sent a card for review which is the only pricing reference we
have when making a video for a card before its release so in our launch
reviews when you see a price to Performance comparison these are the
numbers we're using they're official they're supposed to represent the
Baseline price for this GPU and they should be correct fortunately we're a
bit late on this car and it's already available in stores which gives us the
opportunity to ask why the when looking at newegg.com is there only one single
card in AMD's entire RX product stack
that is at MSRP a reference RX 48 8 gig
and I'm not just going after AMD about this NVIDIA GTX 1080 no cards on NewEgg
at 599 GTX 1070 no cards at 379 from any
brand I'm just mad about it because some people make purchasing decisions based
off priced performance graphs it makes sense and we make some of those graphs
based on the numbers that they give us which has resulted in them being
unintentionally misleading this isn't good for me then it's especially not
good for you but enough about that let's dig into Polaris 11 in its desktop
flavor the rx460 it's a fourth generation gcn architecture chip on
global foundry's 14 nanometer finfet process it's got 14 compute units and
896 stream processors with reference
boards running at a boost speed of 1200 MHz and a memory speed of 7 gbits per
second with a Peak Performance of 2.2 Tera flops less than half of the rx470
but still a lot better than the 100ish dollar cards we've seen in the past it
comes with two or 4 gigs of gddr5 RAM
depending on the variant you purchase with a rated total memory bandwidth of
112 GB per second on a 128bit interface
the suggested ports are one DisplayPort 1.4 connector one HDMI 2.0b connector
and one DVID connector a fairly future proof Loadout and typical board power is
below 75 Watts meaning that like the Beloved 750ti a great upgrade card at
the time for folks with pre-built systems it doesn't need an extra
connection from the power supply and can daintly sip on it 75 watts of power
through the motherboard which brings us to the specific variant we have today
the XFX Double dissipation 4 GB Radeon
rx460 with a metal card extender and
added PCIe power six pin connector two large fans and a whopping 20 MHz Factory
overclock it also features easily removable fan Clips but not easily
removable fans confused so was I XFX has
a technology called hard swap detachable fans which features these same clips and
fans that connect by touching contact points instead of being directly wired
in a really great feature which looks the same on the outside as this one but
when you remove these these fans they just kind of dangle there cool I guess
but not as cool but when's the last time you thought to yourself gee I sure wish
I could hot swap my computer fans anyways let's talk about benchmarks in
directx11 with Crisis 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider it Trails the r9270 and the
GTX 950 but does unsurprisingly wreck
the 750 Ti moving up to dx12 however we
see a bit of a different story it edges much closer in Tomb range and actually
beats all but the gtx950 in ashes of the
singularity and you can check out my dx12 and Vulcan video here to learn more
about why moving on we have some new additions to our test lineup that I
specifically included because of the positioning of this card Dota 2
Counter-Strike GO and OverWatch all of these are mainstream games and
relatively easy to run but because there is a highly competitive component
serious players are still willing to buy a dedicated video cards they don't see
any dips or stutters in the game and the most interesting story here isn't
necessarily where this card slots against others in the list it's more the
fact that it's theoretically anyways a
very lowcost option which manages to play all three of these games at near
100 FPS or above with medium to high settings that makes the rx460 a great
choice if those are the kind of games that you really want to play and based
on the kinds of views that our value AMD builds from 2 years ago have that's
probably a lot of people but the conclusion of this video isn't that
simple because this card costs $150 only 30 less than the MSRP for the
ARX 470 a much faster card making it
much harder to recommend not that those cards are actually available at MSRP
anyways Mass drop in a nutshell they take eager buyers lots of them and eager
companies with products to sell and they connect them and the idea is that the
more people agree to buy the product the lower the price goes that is to say to a
limit unfortunately you will not be able to get the red scarf 2 custom keyboard
that we're covering today for $0 but you
will definitely be able to get a better deal on it so this is the virgin
virgin this is the version C of the Red
Scarf 2 it is designed without the 10 function keys of its predecessor and
features a unique 68 key layout it
consists of a PCB and a CNC aluminum
case plate and feet and allows for customization of the lighting layout
including ISO and ansy it's fully programmable allowing the user to
utilize the unique layout as they see fit and there are a variety of choices
of anodized aluminum colors it comes in black gray red or silver you can also
add a set of standard layout blank or laser etched front printed PBT key caps
in cherry profile and the lighting can be controlled via a remote so to check
out this one and other drops check out that link in the video description Mast
drop has all kinds of great stuff everything from keyboards to camping
gear so you can be a keyboard Warrior or a weekend
warrior anyways guys thanks for watching if you lik the video like it if you
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those are those are cool if you want to discuss the value propositions of
different cards and maybe the pricing in your area we can't talk about the
pricing in every different country here but I know there's crazy stuff going on
all around the world not just in the states and we're even Canadians and
there's crazy stuff going up here too so yeah let us know on the Forum and I'll
see you guys next time watch this video which is our review of the rx470 a
probably more sensible card to buy