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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
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.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 480 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 418 | |
| Value for money | 3.38 | |
| Architecture | Polaris (2016−2019) | |
| GPU code name | Polaris | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 August 2016 (7 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $450 | |
| Current price | $577 (1.3x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
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 cores | 2304 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1077 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 5,700 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 155.1 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 4,963 gflops | of 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 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 have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 8000 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 256.0 GB/s | of 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon RX 480 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
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.
3DMark Fire Strike Score
Benchmark coverage: 14%
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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.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX 480 Mobile:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon RX 480 Mobile according to our statistics.
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