AMD launches Radeon RX 460 in India for Rs.11,990
AMD Radeon RX 460 2GB GDDR5 variant to cost Rs.11,990 and 4GB GDDR5 SKU to cost Rs.13,490
AMD has launched the AMD Radeon RX 460, the last of the three GPUs that they’d showcased at Computex 2016, the others being the Radeon RX 480 and the Radeon RX 470. Targeted at eSports gamers with a price tag that starts from Rs.11,990, the Radeon RX 460 hopes to compete with the likes of GTX 950 and GTX 960 from NVIDIA. Moreover, it boasts of a TDP of less than 75 W which means that the Radeon RX 460 will not require external power. There will be overclocked SKUs with beefy coolers that might end up requiring 1x 6-pin power connector. The Radeon RX 460 will be available in two variants – 4GB SKU for Rs.13,490 and 2GB SKU for Rs.11,990 in India.
AMD Radeon GPU Specifications |
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AMD RX 480 |
AMD RX 470 |
AMD RX 460 |
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Stream Processors |
2304 |
2048 |
896 |
Texture Units |
144 |
128 |
56 |
ROPs |
32 |
32 |
16 |
Core Clock |
1120 MHz |
926 MHz |
1090 MHz |
Boost Clock |
1266 MHz |
1206 MHz |
1200 MHz |
TFLOPs (Peak) |
5.8 |
4.9 |
2.2 |
Compute Units |
36 |
32 |
14 |
Memory Bus Width |
256-bit |
256-bit |
128-bit |
VRAM |
8 / 4 GB GDDR5 |
8 / 4 GB GDDR5 |
4 / 2 GB GDDR5 |
TDP |
150 W |
120 W |
<75 W |
GPU |
Polaris 10 |
Polaris 10 |
Polaris 11 |
Transistor Count |
5.7 billion |
5.7 billion |
NA |
Manufacturing Process |
14nm FinFET |
14nm FinFET |
14nm FinFET |
Launch Price |
$239 / $199 |
$179 / $149 |
$129 / $109 |
“The Radeon RX 460 delivers the perfect balance of price, power, performance and package size, the four key pillars of modern GPUs,” said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD. “The Radeon RX Series is built on architecture designed for extraordinary power efficiency and is especially well suited to desktop gaming PCs targeted at mainstream price points. Radeon RX 460 users will enjoy an optimized software and hardware graphics card solution ideal for both eSports and iCafé systems.”
AMD Radeon RX 460 Price and Availability
This time around, we’ve received the official Indian pricing in time. Here are the prices for the AMD Radeon RX 460 along with their retail stock availability.
SKU |
Price |
Availability |
Radeon RX 460 2GB |
Rs.11,990 |
15th August 2016 |
Radeon RX 460 4GB |
Rs,13,490 |
Early September |
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