Do pro cards/drivers not report correctly on afterburner?

[matt167]

I was testing my new HTPC for thermals yesterday after installing a front fan ( Optiplex 3060 SFF. Dell omitted front fans after the 3050 ). It has a WX 4100

Temps seem to be good but it only shows 50-75% usage and reports about 1000 mhz on the core yet the FPS and benchmarks tell me, it has to be near fully utilized as the benchmarks are right in line for what I expected… I’m using the latest pro drivers as it will not allow me to install the Adrenaline drivers. Could that be why? Wife is away tonight so I’ll have more time to test

 

[matt167]

I’m back thinking about this. TPU shows a 4% increase for a regular RX460 over the Wx4100 and that is with less shaders. It’s got slightly higher clocks and use adrenaline drivers.

Could I safely flash an RX460 1024sp or RX560 bios on this? I know it would need to be forced

 

[Nobu]

The wx 4100 is a Polaris chip (baffin xt, specifically), The rx 460 is Polaris as well, but baffin pro. Looks like the 460 has fewer shaders/TMUs, dunno if they're physically different, if it was disabled, or if it was locked via firmware.

The rx460 1024sp is baffin xt, so you might have better luck with that one if you can find it's firmware somewhere.

 

[matt167]

I’ve never had an Rx460 but the looking I’ve done is a flash to a 560 usually gets the 1024 shaders.

The Rx 460 1024sp and a regular Rx 560 are spec identical. The Rx560D reverted to the regular RX 460 specs

The RX 460 1024sp, I cannot find a 4gb bios with Samsung memory. There is a 560 with Samsung memory. TPU says that a 560 is Polaris 21 XT but says Baffin in the release notes.

My whole thought is to do this for adrenaline drivers and the higher clocks will help too. If a 460 with 896 shaders is 4% faster. Then having the full 1024 shaders at similar clocks could be huge. Being a pro card the silicone is probably a good bin. The ASIC quality is 58%

 

[matt167]

Looks like a stock Rx 560 is 6% faster than a WX 4100 on paper. So with an overclock it could be 10%.

The MSI RX560 Aero ITX is the one that has Samsung memory. I think I might try it