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 Polaris architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.

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 36.26 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon RX 480 Mobile's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Perfomance to price

65.59

Architecture

Polaris

Code name

Ellesmere

Type

Laptop

Release date

4 August 2016

Launch price (MSRP)

$450

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$299.95

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

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.

Pipelines

2304

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Transistor count

5,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

155.1

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

4,963 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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 specs

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

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Video card benchmarks 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

36.26

3DMark Fire Strike Score

4070

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX 480 Mobile performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

102.54 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

100.77 %

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

100.11 %

AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile

100 %

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

98.98 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

98.12 %

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

96.99 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M SLI

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX 480 Mobile from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 980M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our rating.