Sapphire releases an unlocked RX 460 to the Chinese market

WYP

News Guru

• Jan 17, 2017

• #1

Sapphire has released a new unlocked RX 460 to the Chinese market, offering 1024 GPU cores instead of AMD's standard 896.



Read more on Sapphire's factory unlocked RX 460 GPU.

 

AlienALX

Well-known member

• Jan 17, 2017

• #2

Ooo nice ! this could be the budget card to have

 

RobM

Active member

• Jan 17, 2017

• #3

great if you live out there

 

D

dabar_šolta

New member

• Jan 17, 2017

• #4

nice,but why not release worldwide?

 

Tolemac

Active member

• Jan 17, 2017

• #5

dabar_šolta said:

nice,but why not release worldwide?

Click to expand...

Thats up to the Sapphire bosses in Hong Kong

 

Ando

New member

• Jan 17, 2017

• #6

Why would AMD gimp their own card? Were they not trying to catch up at this time?

 

Kleptobot

Member

• Jan 18, 2017

• #7

Ando said:

Why would AMD gimp their own card? Were they not trying to catch up at this time?

Click to expand...

It's a by product of separating GPUs into different bins. GPUs that didn't make it as a 480 get put on 460 boards and the bios disables the cores that couldn't run full speed or at all