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AMD Radeon RX 460 Unlocking from 896 to 1024 Stream Processors

The AMD Radeon RX 460 unlocking process involves nothing more than a simple firmware update and can result in a performance upgrade of 12.5%. The Radeon RX 460 is considered a solid choice in terms of price/performance. It comes by default with 56 TMU and 896 Stream Processors in the form of the Polaris 11 GPU architecture. But here’s how to get an additional 8 TMUs and 128 Stream Processors.

AMD Radeon RX 460 Unlocking How To



Unlocking the RX 460 is pretty simple. It’s unclear why we’re able to do this. Has AMD locked the cards down on purpose, or are the yields not high enough to fulfill the Radeon RX 460 demand? Let us know in the comments what you think!

Currently we can only provide the BIOS for the Sapphire Nitro 4G and the ASUS STRIX O4G. We’re working on testing more cards and if it works, we will upload more modified BIOS versions. In total we have tested 6 cards, each of which was able to unlock the shaders. We tested five ASUS STRIX O4G cards and managed to unlock all five of them.

Download the BIOS package (currently only ASUS STRIX 04G and Sapphire Nitro 4G) and unzip the files.


ASUS RX 460 STRIX O4G Unlocked BIOS

290.84 KB | 43 downloads

Sapphire RX 460 Nitro 4G Unlocked BIOS

290.67 KB | 63 downloads
First backup the original BIOS file in case you want to flash the card back at a certain point (run “backup bios.bat”). You can also save the BIOS with the latest version of TechPowerUp’s GPU-Z.

Afterwards run “flash unlocked bios.bat” to flash the bios. It will take about 15 seconds and should look like in the picture below.



Afterwards restart your system and enjoy about 10% free performance :smile:.


http://overclocking.guide/amd-radeon-rx-460-unlocking-1024-stream-processors/
 
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