GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G Benchmark and Specs

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G has 36 execution units with 2304 shaders. This gives the graphics card a theoretical FP32 computing power of 5.94 TFLOPS.

Based on

AMD Radeon RX 480

GPU Chip

Polaris 10 XT (Ellesmere)

Streaming Multiprocessors

36

Shader

2304

Render Output Units

32

Texture Units

144

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G is equipped with 4 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

4 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Clock

2.000 GHz

Memory Speed

8.0 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

Memory Interface

256 bit

The base frequency of this graphics card is 1.120 GHz and the manufacturer specifies the maximum turbo clock as 1.290 GHz. If supported (see below), the performance can be further increased by overclocking.

Base Clock

1.120 GHz

Boost Clock

1.290 GHz+2 %

Overclocking

Yes

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G is powered by 1 x 8-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 8-Pin

Graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G are cooled by a Air cooling.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 80 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Up to 4 monitors can be operated with the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

1x HDMI 2.0b

DisplayPort

3x DP 1.4a

DVI

1

With the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G 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

Addressable LED

This area lists the video codecs that the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G 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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in a case. It is 232 mm long, 116 mm high and 40 mm wide.

Length

232 mm

Height

116 mm

Width

40 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8G 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

Part-no

GV-RX480G1 GAMING-8GD

Documents

data sheet