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HIS RX 460 Slim-iCooler OC 2GB Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2017-01-30

With Polaris 11, AMD continues its line of low-end but cost-efficient GPUs and RX 460 cards prove that they can handle Full-HD games at medium (and sometimes) high details, depending on the optimization. RX 460 was mostly designed for competitive titles such as DOTA, League of Legends, Counterstrike: Source and not the most demanding ones which require quite a bit more performance and frame buffer. In most tests, it did trade punches with the R9 370 card from the previous generation and got incredibly close or even surpassed it in DirectX12 games, given the better optimization.

Packaging, A Closer Look Part I

Last time we have taken a look at the RX 470 video card which was packing 4GB of GDDR5 RAM and has proven itself as a solid performer at Full-HD resolutions on high details, and in some cases the product made good impressions at 1440P resolutions too (with medium-to-high details). It is now time to check out the entry-level offering of the same series and to be more exact the RX 460 from HIS. This particular GPU is built upon the new Polaris 11 architecture (14nm FinFET), incorporates 3000M transistors, 896 Stream Processors which are found across 14 Compute Units and can be found in both 2GB and 4GB memory configurations.

While the RX 480 and the RX 470 video cards were communicating on a 256-bit interface with the memory, the RX 460 bus is 128-bit wide, but uses the same GDDR5 type of memory. The AMD stock specifications are mentioning a base frequency of 1090MHz, a Boost clock of 1200MHz but since we are dealing with a pre-overclocked card from the factory, the HIS RX 460 Slim-iCooler OC does feature a stock frequency of 1220MHz. while the memory has been left at the stock speed of 1750MHz.

HIS RX 460 Slim-iCooler OC video card we have received for testing and reviewing is the 2GB GDDR5 version and on the top area of the box we will learn that we are dealing with a Green Edition model (optimized for low power consumption):

On one of the box sides, the manufacturer has listed some words regarding the product, but also regarding the company itself:

Moving on, HIS is advertising the registration and its benefits:

A list of box contents is also present on the opposite side:

More details regarding the card can be checked out on the back and this means the main RX 460 Slim-iCooler OC highlights, system requirements and supported technologies:

After removing the top packaging, layer, we will end up with a plain cardboard box:

Here we will get to see the card along with its bundle:

The card bundle is only composed of an envelope that does contain the installation disk and a user manual:

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