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

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

General info

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

Place in performance rating

Value for money (0-100)

38.42

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Code name

Ellesmere

Type

Laptop

Release date

4 August 2016

Launch price (MSRP)

$450

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price now

$299.99

of 4403.52 (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 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

of 1815 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

5,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

155.1 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

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 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB / s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

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

12.0 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Video card benchmark 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

37.12

Radeon RX 480 Mobile performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

101.67 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

101.37 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

100 %

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

95.91 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

95.72 %

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

93.7 %

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX 480 Mobile from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our rating.