After removing the six screws which fix the cooler to the PCB, we can take a closer look at the finer details of the heatsink design. XFX use a dual-copper heatpipe configuration which has direct contact with the GPU. These heatpipes branch out to a large aluminium heatsink which pairs up with the cooling fans to eradicate as much heat as possible.


Without the cooler we can see the PCB and components in all their glory. Taking the heatsink out of the equation reveals just how small the PCB is, the length of the PCB is only 16.5cm.


At the very heart of RX 460 Double Dissipation is the AMD Baffin GPU which is based on a 14nm processor with 3 million transistors and is based on GCN 1.3 architecture.

Against the reference RX 460, this XFX card features a 220MHz overclock to the GPU – reference sits at 1200MHz, this card operates at 1220MHz. This should present us with a slight boost in performance.

The basis for RX 460 is that it will satisfy 1080p gamers who are on a tight budget. Over the series of forthcoming pages, we’ll be testing out the RX 460 to see how it compares to the GTX 1050 in popular games at 1080p and 1440p (for a slight challenge!).