Review: Sapphire Radeon RX 460 Nitro 4GB

Conclusion

The AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU is a not-quite-full implementation of the Polaris 11 GPU. This 896-core part is designed to meet the needs of the would-be gamer taking their first steps into proper graphics.

Pressed by a need to produce a small, energy efficient GPU, RX 460's benchmark performance is akin to a readily available GTX 950 and substantially lower than an RX 470 based on the fuller Polaris 10 die.

This is a GPU most comfortable at 1080p with medium/high-quality settings. As such, it needs to be priced this way, so the £130 asking fee for 4GB-equipped models is too steep when all else is taken into account. It makes most sense outfitted with 2GB of memory and costing no more than £100, and we encourage manufacturers to target this space aggressively.

Sapphire understandably needs to build cards with various frame buffers and features. The RX 460 Nitro is a very solid card that envelopes a GPU whose price-to-performance ratio isn't the best.

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