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Guru3D.com » News » AMD RX 460 Unlocked with BIOS Update - Offers 1024 instead of 896 shaders

AMD RX 460 Unlocked with BIOS Update - Offers 1024 instead of 896 shaders

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/12/2016 09:49 AM | source: | 24 comment(s)
AMD RX 460 Unlocked with BIOS Update - Offers 1024 instead of 896 shaders

User der8auer has posted a guide in which he was able to unlock some of the AMD's RX 460 features with a BIOS update. The shaders are defaulted at 896 shaders / 56 TMUs but got unlockied to of 1024 stream processors and 64 TMUs. 

Here is the guide posted by him:

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.

Note: It’s always possible that something goes wrong if you flash the BIOS of your card. In addition it’s possible that not all cards can be unlocked and that you might damage the card. Flash at your own risk!

nlocking 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
  • Sapphire RX 460 Nitro 4G Unlocked BIOS

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 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.




AMD RX 460 Unlocked with BIOS Update - Offers 1024 instead of 896 shaders AMD RX 460 Unlocked with BIOS Update - Offers 1024 instead of 896 shaders AMD RX 460 Unlocked with BIOS Update - Offers 1024 instead of 896 shaders AMD RX 460 Unlocked with BIOS Update - Offers 1024 instead of 896 shaders




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Mannerheim



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#5369796 Posted on: 12/12/2016 09:54 AM
Good news.. free performance is always good thing.

I have unlocked nvidia 6800 12/5 to 16/6 and GTX465 to 470.

cudarenderer
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#5369813 Posted on: 12/12/2016 10:39 AM
WARNING: This BIOS updater (eg: extra performances, stream processors unlocked...) may void warranty, if any videocard is 100% NORMAL - that's FAIR due to the unofficial.

Official BIOS updater is for fix issues/bug/abnormal (temperatures, fan, performances...) ONLY. ;)

icedman
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#5369831 Posted on: 12/12/2016 11:38 AM
I had no idea the 460 was even cut down maybe they had a rx 465 or 560 planned on the refresh if yields where good.

RooiKreef
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#5369852 Posted on: 12/12/2016 12:42 PM
I think no one was under the impression that one could unlock these cards. Big thanks to der8auer and his team for figuring this out. It's always nice to get free performance like this. This just makes the product even better for price vs. performance.

Undying
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#5369855 Posted on: 12/12/2016 12:49 PM
This is a second Polaris card that was can be unlocked (rx480 early branch ware).

But hey, nvidia cards can be unlocked too (or locked) :D :



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