TechARP spotting something unexpected at the Radeon RX 480 launch in Malaysia, a Radeon RX 460. One suspects that the picture below does not represent its final form but it does give you an idea of the dimensions and the outputs which seem to include DVI, DP and HDMI. TechARP were given some of the specs of this AMD Polaris 11 GPU based card, 14 Compute Units, 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit memory bus.
The biggest takeaway is what AMD was doing with it, this was powering an Oculus Rift VR demo so it is safe to say this card meets at least the minimum specs for the headset. Drop by for more pictures and a video.
"We just stumbled upon an actual Radeon RX 460 graphics card. AMD was using it to power a virtual reality demo on an Oculus VR headset. That was our first encounter with the Radeon RX 460, so we had to take off the perspex cover to take a closer look!"
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That makes no sense, its well
That makes no sense, its well below the minimum spec for the Rift’s defined acceptable cards. The RX 480 is at the minimum, the RX 460 is not going to perform the same as an RX 480 and hence there is no chance that it will be acceptable for VR.
And yet, there it is, running
And yet, there it is, running VR.
any card can run vr, just
any card can run vr, just like any card can run 4k…. doesn’t mean it’s running it well
Almost any card can run 4k
Almost any card can run 4k video. Not every card can game in it. It all depends on what you want to do
thanks for repeating what i
thanks for repeating what i said
Actually the minimum says an
Actually the minimum says an r9 290
Valve was thinking to lower
Valve was thinking to lower VR requirements to 45fps. RX 460 will be able to offer more than that easily, if I take in consideration my HD 7850’s performance(after overclocking it). I am getting about 30-40% under 90fps in SteamVR benchmark, and I expect RX 460 to offer close to my card’s performance, probably a little higher. So, 45fps will be an easy task for RX 460 and be able to support VR with newer, lower minimum requirements.
Do you have a HMD?
I do and
Do you have a HMD?
I do and in the rare circumstance I get frame rate drops below 90 fps I physically feel sick in a few seconds. It causes nausea very rapidly.
The VR factors we have today as the minimum, 90 hz and a latency below 20ms are not optional unless you like loosing your lunch. Its not a VR capable card.
I have a mobile VR headset.
I have a mobile VR headset. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have these figures (playing on a Galaxy S4). Haven’t felt sick playing anything, and neither did my kids.
I have run the SteamVR
I have run the SteamVR performance benchmark on my RX 460 and roughly 20% of the frames were shown below 90FPS
Yeah, mine too. Sometimes I
Yeah, mine too. Sometimes I feel like the tests arent as accurate as it would be actually running a headset. I think the results will vary a bunch
Yeah, mine too. Sometimes I
Yeah, mine too. Sometimes I feel like the tests arent as accurate as it would be actually running a headset. I think the results will vary a bunch
Most gen 1 VR games are well,
Most gen 1 VR games are well, not that impressive looking. Im talking like Job Simulator, or Super Hot VR. Im sure the 460, or even an older 780Ti could run those in VR 30+ FPS
I’m sure it’s gaming chops
I’m sure it’s gaming chops will be fine for the price – this is their $99 GPU, right? I’m more interested in it as a HTPC card.
Single slot card on the way?
Single slot card on the way?
dimensions?Especially i wanna
dimensions?Especially i wanna use that into slim case so height is necessary factor for me! 🙂
Clearly not a low profile
Clearly not a low profile card, but if your case holds a standard height card this will probably fit.