AMD Radeon RX 480
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AMD Radeon RX 480 Benchmark and Specs

All technical data and various benchmarks of the AMD Radeon RX 480 are listed on this page. The graphics card is based on the Polaris 10 XT (Ellesmere) graphics chip, which is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nm. The AMD Radeon RX 480 can operate up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 become.
FP32
5.83TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.27GHz
Memory
8GB GDDR5
TDP
150 W

Technical details

GPU

The AMD Radeon RX 480 has 36 execution units with 2304 shaders. This gives the graphics card a theoretical FP32 computing power of 5.83 TFLOPS.

GPU Chip
Polaris 10 XT (Ellesmere)
Streaming Multiprocessors
36
Shader
2304
Render Output Units
32
Texture Units
144

Memory

The AMD Radeon RX 480 is equipped with 8 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5. The memory clock of the graphics card is 2.000 GHz and the speed is 8 Gbps.

Memory Size
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit

Clock Speeds

The base frequency of this graphics card is 1.120 GHz and the manufacturer specifies the maximum turbo clock as 1.266 GHz. If supported (see below), the performance can be further increased by overclocking.

Base Clock
1.120 GHz
Boost Clock
1.266 GHz
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The AMD Radeon RX 480 is powered by 1 x 6-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 150 W.

TDP
150 W
Tjunction max
100 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

Graphics processor and graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 480 are cooled by a Air cooling.

Fan-Type
Radial
Fan 1
1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling

Connectivity

Up to 4 monitors can be operated with the AMD Radeon RX 480.

Max. Displays
4
HDCP
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4a

Featureset

With the AMD Radeon RX 480 it is possible to operate a screen with a resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels. Furthermore, the DirectX standard version 12_0 is supported.

Max. resolution
7680x4320
DirectX
12_0
Raytracing
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
LED
No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists the video codecs that the AMD Radeon RX 480 can decode or encode in hardware in order to minimize the processor load, which leads to lower power consumption.

h264
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
VP8
No
VP9
No
AV1
No

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon RX 480 needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in a case. It is 240 mm long, 95 mm high and 35 mm wide.

Length
240 mm
Height
95 mm
Width
35 mm
Width (Slots)
2 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The AMD Radeon RX 480 was released in Q2/2016 at a price of 199 $. The graphics card manufactured in 14 nm is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes.

GPU Interface
PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release date
Q2/2016
Launch Price
199 $ (Reference)
Structure size
14 nm
Documents
data sheet
AMD Radeon RX 480
1.120 GHz · 8 GB · 150 W TDP
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Benchmark results

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL Rank 4,194 / 5,255

  1. AMD Radeon RX 480AMD Radeon RX 4808 GB GDDR5
    42,694
  2. AMD Radeon RX 480AMD Radeon RX 480Average of gpu group
    42,694

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 4,110 / 5,233

  1. AMD Radeon RX 480AMD Radeon RX 4808 GB GDDR5
    45,619
  2. AMD Radeon RX 480AMD Radeon RX 480Average of gpu group
    45,619

Geekbench 6 - Metal Rank 582 / 750

  1. AMD Radeon RX 480AMD Radeon RX 4808 GB GDDR5
    41,864
  2. AMD Radeon RX 480AMD Radeon RX 480Average of gpu group
    41,864

MonkeyBench 2026.3 · browser GPU test

Average of 1 public MonkeyBench results (WebGPU) for the AMD Radeon RX 480.

120GPU points (Ø)
Rank 187 / 480 · in the MonkeyBench GPU ranking

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