Unlock disabled Radeon RX 460 cores with this modded BIOS

[CaptainTom]

The RX 460 is a very cool card (as in temps). AMD has had power hungry and hot series in the past (300 series) but Nvidia still has the crown with Fermi.

Just as a note, substandard is a matter of your use / case scenario. Making a blanket statement like "Radeon's (and the rest of AMD products) are substandard" and you are bound to be wrong somewhere.

I think what you are exhibiting is an excellent example of Nvidia's Mindshare, similar to Apple's (which ironically you also like). Both of these companies have a subset of customers that will buy their product no matter what. For example, when Nvidia sold more GTX 680s than AMD did 7970s, even though the 7970 was faster, smaller, and more power efficient. Not to mention the 7970 had much better support and totally dominates the GTX 680 in any benchmark now. Heck, it even has DX 12 support, something the GTX 680 completely lacks (and even modern Nvidia GPUs don't support Async Compute yet).

Sometimes it just seems completely hopeless doesn't it? How do we talk to people that just straight up ignore facts and spread FUD?

 

[CaptainTom]

Please tell me which Radeon product outperforms my Titan X or the 1080 because I really need a good laugh right now.

Depending on the game, the Fury X outperforms your 1080 from time to time.

Titan X? Well you could argue the Radeon Pro does, but I would just say the Titan is irrelevant.

 

[Evernessince]

And you are displaying Red Team Koolaid Syndrome.

First of all, the 7970 had issues at launch. AMD's trademark driver issues were abound in the early days of the 7000 series (AMD wouldnt achieve parity with nvidia driver quality until the 300 series). This, combined with the cool heels of AMD fans following the lukewarm 6000 series, is what played a large part in the 600 series selling better. Not saying there isnt an nvidia mind-share, but people blow it way out of proportion.

The radeon 460 may be "cool running", yes, but it has lower performance per watt then the sub 75 watt 750ti, to say nothing of the 1050ti. As far as the intended purpose of the 460, being a cheap, low power card, it fails in comparison to the pascal cards.

As for the 680, it only features DX12_0 support, not DX12_1 or DX12_2. But saying it doesnt support DX12 at all is wrong. It CAN run DX12 games, just not with all the features of DX12.

Nvidia has screwed up as well, not properly supporting parts of DX12 is a big one, but AMD's biggest enemy has been their utterly incompetent management. Now, with proper drivers, AMD can sell well. They just need some hardware that is competitive with half of nvidia's lineup. the 1070, 1080, and titanXP have had no competition for half a year now.

I had a 7970 and read all the reviews. You mention driver issues but I didn't run into any and the reviews didn't either. Please watch the video I linked in the previous comment, the Mindshare in not exaggerated.

"The radeon 460 may be "cool running", yes, but it has lower performance per watt then the sub 75 watt 750ti"

That is just blatantly false, I don't even know where you got this from

http://techreport.com/review/30488/amd-radeon-rx-460-graphics-card-reviewed/11
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-460,4707-4.html

Even on games that HEAVILY favor Nvidia like project cars the RX 460 still comes out on top of the 750 Ti. I have never even heard someone make that statement before, it's unanimous that the RX 460 is the much better performer. That gap has only gotten biggest since AMD's ReLive driver release.

 

[theBest11778]

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/new-horizon

The event today appears to be the preview of the Zen CPU.

Vega is rumored to be launching "first half 2017." I am missing the connection where new video cards are being announced/launched today.

Rumor is the RX 490 will be announced today. Not that it will be released today. It's a smart marketing move to take away from Nvidia's holiday sales. At the very least it'd be worth waiting to see if these rumors are true.

 

[OcelotRex]

Rumor is the RX 490 will be announced today. Not that it will be released today. It's a smart marketing move to take away from Nvidia's holiday sales. At the very least it'd be worth waiting to see if these rumors are true.

I didn't see that on AMD's website; so far it's all been about ZEN.

 

[Evernessince]

Rumor is the RX 490 will be announced today. Not that it will be released today. It's a smart marketing move to take away from Nvidia's holiday sales. At the very least it'd be worth waiting to see if these rumors are true.

Just watched the Ryzen event, it wasn't revealed today but they once again showed a VEGA GPU doing 4k above 60 FPS on Starwars. If that is the RX 490 doing that, it would be pretty amazing as it would mean it is at least on par with the GTX 1080. It's kinda of hard to believe it's not the bigger vega chip destined to be the Fury X successor.

 

[theBest11778]

Just watched the Ryzen event, it wasn't revealed today but they once again showed a VEGA GPU doing 4k above 60 FPS on Starwars. If that is the RX 490 doing that, it would be pretty amazing as it would mean it is at least on par with the GTX 1080. It's kinda of hard to believe it's not the bigger vega chip destined to be the Fury X successor.

Vega 10 (likely what they showed off,) will be the BIG Vega GPU for awhile. 4096 cores HBM 2 512Gb/s RAM producing 12.5 TFlop 32bit floating point performance. Vega 20 won't arrive for awhile and will compete with Nvidia's Volta GPUs.

 

[Evernessince]

Vega 10 (likely what they showed off,) will be the BIG Vega GPU for awhile. 4096 cores HBM 2 512Gb/s RAM producing 12.5 TFlop 32bit floating point performance. Vega 20 won't arrive for awhile and will compete with Nvidia's Volta GPUs.

Yeah that's what I figured. Just waiting on the pricing now. If it follows the pricing of Polaris we should see a decent drop in GPU prices.

 

[Jibberish18]

If anyone cares, I have an XFX 460 2GB card and it tops out at about 150*F/65^C at 100% load (folding)

 

[OcelotRex]

Yeah that's what I figured. Just waiting on the pricing now. If it follows the pricing of Polaris we should see a decent drop in GPU prices.

Hopefully so. I've been wanting to replace my 3 year old card with a 1070 but is it too much to ask AMD to offer something that performs better for less?