Rx 460: 12.5% ​​more performance just by modifying the bios

The Radeon RX 460 is the latest low-profile graphics card to be released by AMD in recent months based on the Polaris architecture. We did an extensive review of this graphics card, which performs above the R7 260X or a GTX 750 Ti.

RX 460 unlocked via BIOS

Thanks to the overclocker "der8auer", it has been revealed that it is possible to unlock features of the Baffin Pro chip through changes in the BIOS. These changes would be the unblocking of Stream Processors and additional TMUs.

As we know, the Radeon RX 460 has about 869 Stream Processors and 56 TMUs from the factory, making changes to the BIOS of the graphics card, you can get 1024 Stream Proccesors and 64 TMUs. Unlocking these features gives this graphic 12.5% ​​more performance without too much effort and for free.

12.5% ​​extra performance

In order to unlock the RX 460 we will need the GPU-Z application and download one of the two BIOSes that are already unlocked, that of the Asus Radeon RX 460 STRIX O4G or the Sapphire Radeon RX 460 Nitro 4G. Before making any changes to the BIOS of the graphics card, it is always recommended to make a backup copy of it with the GPU-Z application itself.

Now yes, you run the executable file '' flash unlocked bios.bat '', wait for the process to finish and then restart the computer, that's all. Now you will have an RX 460 with additional power.

According to the results with The Witcher 3, the graphics card Unlocked achieves results very similar to a GTX 1050, which costs about 45 euros more. The consumption on the other hand increases only about 3 or 4W.