Radeon RX 480 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 480 Mobile sales 4 August 2016 at a recommended price of $450. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 100 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 480 (Laptop): architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Ellesmere | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 4 August 2016 (8 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $450 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)'s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2304 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1077 MHz | of 3230 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 5,700 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 155.1 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 4.963 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 144 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 480 (Laptop): 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 256.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 480 (Laptop). 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 and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon RX 480 (Laptop), sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 480 Mobile is GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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.
