AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 480 Mobile sales 1 August 2016 at a recommended price of $450 . This is a laptop graphics card based on a Polaris architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is 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 poor gaming and benchmark performance at 8.90% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 480 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking418
Value for money3.38
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)
GPU code namePolaris
Market segmentLaptop
Release date1 August 2016 (7 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$450
Current price$577 (1.3x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Radeon RX 480 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base 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.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed1077 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors5,700 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate155.1of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance4,963 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

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 sizelarge
InterfaceMXM-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 have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed8000 MHzof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 480 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 480 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 480 Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RX 480 Mobile 8.90

3DMark Fire Strike Score

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RX 480 Mobile 4070

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 480 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 14−16

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
Battlefield 5 30−33
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 24−27
Cyberpunk 2077 14−16
Far Cry 5 21−24
Far Cry New Dawn 21−24
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
Hitman 3 21−24
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2 16−18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion 14−16

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
Battlefield 5 30−33
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 24−27
Cyberpunk 2077 14−16
Far Cry 5 21−24
Far Cry New Dawn 21−24
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
Hitman 3 21−24
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
Metro Exodus 12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2 16−18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion 14−16

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
Battlefield 5 30−33
Cyberpunk 2077 14−16
Far Cry 5 21−24
Far Cry New Dawn 21−24
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion 14−16

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
Hitman 3 14−16
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
Metro Exodus 8−9
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−12

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 3−4
Battlefield 5 14−16
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 14−16
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion 4−5

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 6−7
Hitman 3 8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn 7−8
Metro Exodus 3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
Battlefield 5 6−7
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 8−9
Far Cry New Dawn 10−11
Forza Horizon 4 10−12
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX 480 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 480 Mobile is GeForce GTX 870M, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with Radeon RX 480 Mobile according to our statistics.

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