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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
- Interface MXM-B (3.0)
- Core clock speed
- Max video memory 8 GB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 8000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 480 Mobile sales 1 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. 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
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of Radeon RX 480 Mobile's architecture, market segment and release date.
Place in performance rating | 366 | |
Value for money | 3.66 | |
Architecture | Polaris (2016−2019) | |
GPU code name | Polaris | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 1 August 2016 (5 years ago) | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $450 | |
Price now | $577 (1.3x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Technical specs
Radeon RX 480 Mobile's general performance parameters 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 18432 (AD102) |
Boost clock speed | 1077 MHz | of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600) |
Number of transistors | 5,700 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
Thermal design power (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
Texture fill rate | 155.1 | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
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
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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
Memory clock speed | 8000 MHz | of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti) |
Memory bandwidth | 256.0 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
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 video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
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
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon RX 480 Mobile. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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
3DMark Fire Strike Score
Benchmark coverage: 13%
Game benchmarks
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.
Full HD
Low Preset
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
Full HD
High Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
Metro Exodus | 10−12 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
1440p
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−12 | |
Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
Metro Exodus | 10−12 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
4K
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−12 | |
Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
Metro Exodus | 10−12 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−12 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−12 |
4K
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 10−12 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 10−12 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−12 |
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon RX 480 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
The nearest Radeon RX 480 Mobile's NVIDIA equivalent is GeForce GTX 870M, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our rating.
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.