Sapphire Nitro RX 460 OC Graphics Card Review

Noise, Power Consumption and Temperatures

Noise

The graphics card’s 0dB fan mode is superb and creates a silent desktop experience when engaging in rudimentary tasks such as web browsing. Under load, the noise output remains very low and doesn’t become an annoyance at any time. As you can see, it’s much quieter than the RX 470 despite utilising the same fans and similar heatsink design. Perhaps, this is down to the core’s lower power demands which make the fans rotate at a slower RPM speed.

Power Consumption

Evidently, the Sapphire Nitro RX 460 OC is a low-powered product and consumes around the same watts as the GTX 950 once paired with an X99-based system. Please remember, this is a custom cooled unit with a 6-pin power connector and lower-end models will use significantly less power under stress.

Temperatures

Here we can see GPU reaches an average temperature of 74C during benchmarking doesn’t offer the same thermal efficiency as the GTX 950. Unfortunately, the core runs hotter than a large number of AMD products such as the R9 380X and this probably stems from the factory overclocked 1250MHz boost.