Now that, AMD launched the Radeon RX 460, and one of the board partners showing its custom cards is PowerColor, with its Red Dragon Radeon RX 460 2 GB and the Red Dragon Radeon RX 460 4 GB.
Seeing as they’re both called “Red Dragon,” one would think that they’re identical cards aside from the memory size, but the names are deceiving – they also have different coolers. Clock-wise, the two run identically at 1,212 MHz on the GPU (which is a small 12 MHz above reference clocks), and the GDDR5 memory on both of them runs over a 128-bit memory interface at an effective speed of 7.0, which is the reference frequency.
Both cards come with a dual-link DVI connector, HDMI and DisplayPort.
The 2 GB flavor of the card comes with a single-fan cooler with a simple shroud and heatsink, whereas the 4 GB variant comes with two fans and a more potent heatsink. Neither of the cards have any special bells or whistles, so they should be two of the more affordable RX 460s, with the 2 GB variant likely coming close to the $110 MSRP set by AMD.
| Type | 2GB GDDR5 | 4GB GDDR5 |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic Engine | Radeon RX 460 | |
| Stream Processor | 896 | |
| Video Memory | 2GB GDDR5 | 4GB GDDR5 |
| Engine Clock | 1,212MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1,750MHz x 4 (7.0Gbps) | |
| Memory Interface | 128bit | |
| Manufacturing Process | GloFo 14nm FinFET | |
| Architecture | GCN 4 | |
| DirectX Support | 12 | |
| BUS Standard | PCIE 3.0 | |
| Standard Display Connectors | DVI-D/HDMI/DP | |
