AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 480 Mobile sales 4 August 2016 at a recommended price of $450. This is GCN 4.0 architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256.0 GB / s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 100 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 37.58 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of Radeon RX 480 Mobile's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
72.96
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Code name
Ellesmere
Type
Laptop
Release date
4 August 2016
Technical specs
Radeon RX 480 Mobile's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 480 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Transistor count
5,700 million
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
of 7
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon RX 480 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Laptop size
large
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 480 Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 480 Mobile.
Display Connectors
No outputs
API support
APIs supported by Radeon RX 480 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon RX 480 Mobile. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
37.58
3DMark Fire Strike Score
4070
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon RX 480 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon RX 480 Mobile performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX 480 Mobile from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 780M SLI, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 8 positions in our rating.
