![]() You can check the GPU-Z validation entry for additional details. The card has a DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI display outputs and doesn't require additional power than what it gets via PCIe lane. ![]() So behold Medion RX 460 2GB single slot graphics card priced at around 75 EUR / 82 USD which is around 67% of new Sapphire Radeon RX 560 Pulse 2GB from the local shop (cheapest RX 560 2GB I could find). One of them even listed that's a MSI card made for Medion (although it could have been made by ECS instead). Some time ago I saw on the local ebay-alike site two sellers offering a big stock of skinny looking RX 460 cards coming from Medion PC disassembling. They offer a wide range of electronics including laptops, computers and accessories. Medion AG is a German company owned by Lenovo. TSMC 14 nm node is rather stable and mature so lets check what quality two non-consumer RX 460 cards will reveal to us. But is it true? Are chips, in this case low end GPU chips, sorted in such way? Does silicon quality differs so much that they would have to be sorted? To some extent it will depend on the process node - how good are the yields and chips quality stability. ![]() If it's not intended to go into a super OC GPU card then why bother with picking parts with high OC potential for the OEM basket? Similarly we could expect that no name cards are either fake or some cheap bin of chips for a local market. OEM, parts designed to go in high quantities, to be put in a mass made generic consumer product could be less efficient than those in flagship products. But what happens when a graphics card is destined to live it days as a OEM card in an pre-built PC? Or what it won't end up in a MSI, Gigabye, Sapphire or other well known brand product? Let's take a loot at Medion OEM and Jegy RX 460 cards to find out. Graphic cards try to appeal to us with impressive cooling solutions, factory overclocks or RGB, lots of RGB. ![]()
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