Great price for an entry level card. PCIe power only required (from memory), so a good option to place in an older system.
2GB Asus RX460 - $129 @ MSY (Was $169)
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gtx950 is in zero way a better option at the same price. The 460 is a generation newer - so better media features and longer support. With similar performance and similar price currently, and AMD's penchant to get better performance relative to nVidia with time, the 460 is a much better purchase.
Edit: The 460 appears to even outperform the 1050, the newer generation card which replaced the 950. See this fairly recent aggregated performance list from Techpowerup (one of the most exhaustive and reliable GPU review sites around, using up to date drivers):
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_1050_Ti_Strix_O…+6 votes… Am I blind or something? You are saying that the 460 appears to even outperform the 1050, yet all I can see on techpowerup is that the 460 performance is 73%, while GTX1050 is 95%. It's the RX470 that outperforms the 1050.
Yes, you are blind. You're looking at the 1050Ti. 1050 is 72%.
do these decode hevc in hardware?
Yep, decode/encode - not sure if 8bit or 10bit though
Yeah hevc encode and decode in hardware. And I'm fairly sure it's 10bit, but best confirm with a legit source it that's a dealbreaker.
Any opinions on that soundbar?
I have it. I think it's amazing.
Was hoping this would be 4gb. I planned to set this up so I could play rocket league in 4k on the TV. Would this still work?
No…
I doubt rocket league would need more than 2G RAM even at 4k.
The limiting factor here is that these are low end cards and don't have the muscle to run anything with decent frame rates at 4k. Full high def' (1920x1080) is exactly half the hight and width of 4k and looks decent on many 4k TV's. This card would run rocket league at FHD nicely.
UHD is four times the pixel count of 1080p
here is a visual representation of how much more 'surface area' UHD 4k has over standard FHD.
http://imgur.com/DXRxyWqYou need a very powerful card… much, much more powerful and expensive to drive a 4k display.
Some person on youtube has everything maxed at 1080p and the card pushed around 70fps.
Trying to get decent fps at four times the number of pixels… I would say no…
And they have an equivalent GTX950 for $139 regular price
Well I suppose that's an option if you want to pay more for worse performance and more power usage…
Glad to have a more knowledgeable person comment. Will go grab a 460 then :)
Is this an upgrade on my gtx 770 at all?
Edit: A quick google says the 770 is much faster I think
You need a RX480 to really see a significant difference.
we got 2 of the RX470 for different PCs at home. AMD are very active with driver support as it's their new regeneration chip line. We use 1080p, and didn't want to have to upgrade power supplies.
Might get one of these RX460 for the last PC with no graphics card (uses onboard)thks.
My very old motherboard PCIe 2.0 motherboard couldn't power an RX 460 and kept crashing. Needed an EVGA Power Boost to get reliable.
True. From what I can see this card doesn't require any extra PCI-E power connector. Just Plugs directly into the PCI-E 16x slot. So shouldn't be that power hungry.
This card is overclocked so it can be problematic. Under-clocking didn't fix my issue. For people with older motherboards and have a 6-pin connector available on their power supply, I recommend getting a card that uses that (or use a Power Boost, which is getting harder to find as newer computers don't need them).
hdmi & dvi are both digital so there won't be a problem with the DVI - HDMI dual link cable right?
They are both digital
(But why do you want a DVI - HDMI dual link cable? Basically all monitors and cards these days support HDMI and DisplayPort, which are both better than DVI).
the monitors at work would only take VGA and DVI, I need to plugin my laptop which only has HDMI, I'm buying the right cable am I?
Yes HDMI and DVI are the easiest to connect, they use the same protocol. Basic difference is the the plugs are different shapes and the pins are in different places.
Best way to run dual DVI monitors on this?
1 x Native DVI
1 x Display port using a displayport-to-DVI adaptorCan anyone confirm if this will work?
As noted above DVI <-> HDMI is painless.
You can turn Display port into anything but you'll need an 'active' converter, which introduces some issues of it's own.
Bought and tested with a "DisplayPort Male To DVI Female 24+5 Pin Converter Adapter Cable"
Works same as my existing card with dual native DVI outputs!
Monitors are a few years old so don't have a HDMI interface and running different resolutions.
This is a great price for a card that is already great value at the regular price.
is the Asus 2GB R9 380 STRIX at $139 a better buy comparing with the RX 460?
Depends what you are after, the 380 is quite a bit faster but being an older card, uses much more power and is much larger. It is also missing some of the newer features found in Polaris.
It's not a bad card though. I had it and it pushes out better performance than a GTX 960 2gb. The GTX 1050 also has the same performance level as the 960, but more power efficient.
139 dollars is very cheap for this kind of performance, so if you dont care about Polaris features, it's a good card for tight ass gamers.
It does require more room and power though so not ideal if you have a weak Psu.
I just purchased a Dual Fan ASUS 750 ti OC model on the MSY sale in Dec last year which overclocks really well, all the sliders are set to MAX on GPU Tweak II, will I see much of an improvement if I upgrade to the RX460, I'm worried about a low VRAM in future games as well?
It's not much of an upgrade, you will be seeing an improvement but not more than 20 percent.
Here are some Doom benchmarks
http://techreport.com/review/30488/amd-radeon-rx-460-graphic…
And Witcher 3 Dx11
http://techreport.com/review/30488/amd-radeon-rx-460-graphic…There is an increase of around 10 fps from 32 to 41 fps. Pretty modest.
I just picked one up in the stinking heat at North Melbourne, they retail for $199 at Centrecom and Tecs said there is no way they can price match as it's below their buying cost. MSY Technology for the Win!
Those are using old drivers though.
as it has HDMI 2.0, i might get this for my hackintosh (no drivers for pascal cards!)
edit: gtx950 is a better option, same price, as noted below.