AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD Radeon RX 480 Benchmark and Specs

AMD Radeon RX 480 GPU benchmark, specs and release date - 8 GB AMD Radeon 400 Series Graphics card rating. How good is the Radeon RX 480 for gaming?

Benchmark Score

21 %
Average score from 12 samples
Low uncertainty
Performance
Average
Ranking
115th of 549
Popularity
59th of 549
Samples
12 benchmarks

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GPU Comparison

The AMD Radeon RX 480 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more GPUs with our GPU Comparison Tool.

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
72 %
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
54 %
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
35 %
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
30 %
AMD Radeon RX 580
22 %
AMD Radeon RX 480
21 %
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
14 %

GPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this graphics card in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks. All tests were performed at 1920 x 1080 resolution.

Flux Core

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

91 FPS average
64 FPS 10% low
59 FPS 1% low

Electron

Randomly generated noise sphere test

67 FPS average
63 FPS 10% low
59 FPS 1% low

City

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS average
70 FPS 10% low
64 FPS 1% low

Clouds

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

36 FPS average
33 FPS 10% low
32 FPS 1% low

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

3DMark Graphics

3DMark Graphics

High-end graphics benchmark

4,144
Geekbench 5 (Metal)

Geekbench 5 (Metal)

Metal compute benchmark

42,415
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL)

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

44,522
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan)

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

48,947
Geekbench 6 (Metal)

Geekbench 6 (Metal)

Metal compute benchmark

43,265
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

42,732
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan)

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

48,947

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Specifications

Core Clock 1266 MHz
Boost Clock 1266 MHz
Memory Type GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GiB
Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Bandwidth 218.75 GB/s
TDP 150 W
Floating Point Performance 5.83 TFLOP/s
Release Date 2016-06-29
Family Radeon 400 Series
PCIe Revision 3
DirectX Support 12
OpenGL Support 4.5
Pixel Rate 40.51 Gigapixels/s
Texture Rate 182.3 Gigatexels/s
Shading Units 2304
Texture Mapping Units 144
Render Output Processors 32

AMD Radeon RX 480

The Radeon RX 480 is a GPU from AMD released in 2016. This chip has an average gaming score at 21% in our GPU benchmark.

The Radeon RX 480 has 8 GiB of GDDR5 memory, with a total memory bandwidth of 218 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 256 bits. More memory is beneficial when gaming at high resolutions as the memory needs to store the frame buffer and all the game textures. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used.

In terms of clock speed, the Radeon RX 480 GPU core runs at a frequency of 1266 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1266 MHz. The core clock is directly related to the performance of a GPU, the higher the clock, the more processing can be done per second. A higher clock does not guarantee better performance by itself, this also depends on the number of shading units and other elements of the pipeline.

As for rendering API support, the Radeon RX 480 supports up to DirectX 12. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.5 features are supported. If your GPU is too old and doesn't support a newer API certain titles may not be playable.

Power and thermals for the AMD Radeon RX 480 are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 150 watts. This measures the amount of heat the GPU produces when running at 100%. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's a good estimate.

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