GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G
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GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G. Up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 can be operated with this graphics card. The maximum turbo clock of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is 1.266 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 5.83 TFLOPS.
FP32
5.83TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.27GHz
Memory
4GB GDDR5
TDP
150 W

Technical details

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with 36 execution and 2304 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 5.83 TFLOPS is achieved.

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

Memory

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s is achieved. In total, 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.750 GHz
Memory Speed
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit

Clock Speeds

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G with 1.120 GHz (base clock) or with 1.266 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock
1.120 GHz
Boost Clock
1.266 GHz
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G has 1 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

TDP
150 W
Tjunction max
100 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with 2 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type
Axial
Fan 1
2 x 80 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.2 version.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_0.

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

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

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

Dimensions

The dimensions of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G are 232 mm in length, 116 mm in height and 40 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length
232 mm
Height
116 mm
Width
40 mm
Width (Slots)
2 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G is manufactured in a structure width of 14 nm and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q2/2016.

GPU Interface
PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release date
Q2/2016
Launch Price
199 $ (Reference)
Structure size
14 nm
Part-no
GV-RX480WF2-4GD
Documents
data sheet
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G
1.120 GHz · 4 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. GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4GGIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G4 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. GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4GGIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G4 GB GDDR5
    45,619
  2. AMD Radeon RX 480AMD Radeon RX 480Average of gpu group
    45,619

Geekbench 6 - Metal Rank 582 / 750

  1. GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4GGIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 WINDFORCE 4G4 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 / 488 · in the MonkeyBench GPU ranking

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