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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 41.20 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

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

27.65

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Code name

Ellesmere

Type

Laptop

Release date

4 August 2016

Launch price (MSRP)

$450

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$449.99

of 4762.99 (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 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

of 1750 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

5,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 12

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 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Shared memory

API support

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

DirectX

DirectX 12

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

41.20

3DMark Fire Strike Score

4070.00

Relative perfomance

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

103.98 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI

103.13 %

AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile

100.29 %

AMD Radeon R9 290X

100 %

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

99.93 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

98.33 %

AMD Radeon HD 7990

97.77 %

AMD Radeon HD 7950

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX 480 Mobile from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 970M SLI, which is faster by 4% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.