Guide: Overclock ROG Strix RX 460

For those of you who snatched up an ROG Strix RX 460 recently, one of our most dedicated forum contributors - Nate152 has put together an easy guide for you to get the most out of your card. See if you can do even better and join the discussion here!

 

Hello ROG Strix RX 460 owners,

If you'd like to overclock it, in a few easy steps you'll have it running at its maximum performance. First you'll need to install GPU Tweak II from the ASUS support center, as of now the latest version is 1.3.9.7


We'll use unigine valley to see our performance gain and here's the free download.

Open GPU Tweak II and click the gear at the top right in red and under Tuning Settings check "Apply settings each time GPU Tweak II starts", uncheck everything else then click Apply and Save. 

ROG RX 460 has three modes: Silent Mode, Gaming Mode and OC Mode. I'll do the first test in OC Mode then we'll do a test with our overclock.

Silent Mode - 1216MHz
Gaming Mode - 1236mHz 
OC Mode - 1256 MHz

The memory runs default at 7000MHz.

Open Unigine Valley, at the top left click benchmark and let it run to completion. We're running the benchmark at 1920 x 1080 with the highest settings with anti-aliasing turned off. (See settings in the benchmark below)

Score in OC Mode, my 6700k is overclocked to 4.75GHz.

Now let's overclock it to the max and see what we get, try these settings they should work pretty well.

Click Professional Mode at the bottom right and it brings up this below. Under Profiles then under Silent Mode select User Mode 1 which I changed to my name NATE152. Slide the GPU Voltage to 100% and Power Target to 50%, slide the GPU Clock to 1371MHz and slide the Memory Clock to 7791MHz then click Apply and Save.

Score with our overclock, max temp was a chilly 60°C shown in GPU Tweak II.

ROG Strix RX 460 runs very cool and I doubt you'll need to set a fan curve but if you want to here is how. Under Fan Speed select User Define then click the little gear beside it and it brings up this below, move the boxes to your desired fan speed (left) and temp (bottom) then click save Apply and Save again. 

Here is a little review of what you can expect with games. 

That's pretty much it, I'd like to see your scores and overclocks to compare with mine, if you have any questions feel free to ask.