Monday, August 29th 2016

XFX Readies a Fanless Radeon RX 460 Graphics Card

XFX is among the first ready with a passively-cooled Radeon RX 460 graphics card. Pictured below, the card uses a dense aluminium fin-stack heatsink that's longer than the 17.8 cm PCB but two slots thick, cooling the 75W TDP GPU. The heatsink uses a pair of nickel-plated copper heat pipes to convey heat directly drawn from the GPU, to two ends of the fin-stack. The heatsink also appears to draw heat from the VRM, although the memory chips appear to be cooled passively. The card relies on the PCI-Express slot for all its power needs, display outputs include one each of DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, and dual-link DVI. The card is currently released in China, where it's priced at 999 RMB. It remains to be seen if XFX launches it elsewhere.
Source: Expreview
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9 Comments on XFX Readies a Fanless Radeon RX 460 Graphics Card

#1
ZoneDymo
very cool (at least, I hope ;) )
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#2
RejZoR
Passive cards are never "cool". They are cool because you can strap a 120mm fan on it and overclock the hell out of the core :D
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#3
FYFI13
Meh. I'd be more interested to see single slot, half height card for SFF PCs, since Nvidia partners are too lazy to release one.
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#4
natr0n
RejZoRPassive cards are never "cool". They are cool because you can strap a 120mm fan on it and overclock the hell out of the core :D
As soon as I saw that I thought could ziptie 120mm fan on there easy.
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#5
PLAfiller
FYFI13Meh. I'd be more interested to see single slot, half height card for SFF PCs, since Nvidia partners are too lazy to release one.
Me and you brother. Can't wait for Gigabyte gtx950 low profile. If they make one...
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#6
RejZoR
natr0nAs soon as I saw that I thought could ziptie 120mm fan on there easy.
Or just use screws thick enough to grind in between fins. I usually stick fans this way to heatsinks.
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#7
$ReaPeR$
very nice for a silent build
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#8
Frick
Fishfaced Nincompoop
Let's hope it's the 2GB version, the only sane version and even that is a bit too much. Passive and it performs about the same as my GTX 760 is pretty nice. But aye I want to see a low profile version. :D
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#9
Hillbilly
If this does make the US market I'll be putting one in my media center. Yes I still am running a Windows 8.1 Pro w/ Media Center in the living room. With all the low power GPU's nowadays you would think fanless, single slot, and low profile would be better served markets?
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