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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.

A Closer Look Part II

For extra protection, the card is also wrapped inside an anti-static bag:

Besides the transparent plastic layer that is initially present on the aluminum shroud, we must also remove the PCI-Express and video out dust protectors:

This specific card was designed to be fitted in small form factor PCs and occupies only one slot together with its cooling system. The signature black lion is also present here as we have seen along with the RX 480 IceQ X2 Roaring Turbo 8GB and along the fan cutout we can also check an interesting pattern drawn on the surface:

If we look on the laterals, we will get to see how the top aluminum shroud is fitted to the main heatsink:

The central 11-blade fan is surprisingly silent for its size and succeeds to keep the GPU cool even in the most stressful conditions; a chromed HIS logo is also present in the middle:

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