AMD Radeon RX 480
- Graphics Processor
- Ellesmere
- Cores
- 2304
- TMUs
- 144
- ROPs
- 32
- Memory Size
- 8 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Bus Width
- 256 bit
Recommended Gaming Resolutions:
- 640x480
- 1280x720
- 1366x768
- 1600x900
- 1920x1080
- 2560x1440
- 3840x2160
The Radeon RX 480 is a performance-segment graphics card by AMD, launched in June 2016. Built on the 14 nm process, and based on the Ellesmere graphics processor, in its Polaris 10 XT variant, the card supports DirectX 12. This ensures that all modern games will run on Radeon RX 480. The Ellesmere graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 232 mm² and 5,700 million transistors. It features 2304 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. AMD has paired 8 GB GDDR5 memory with the Radeon RX 480, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1120 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1266 MHz, memory is running at 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective).
Being a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon RX 480 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 150 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort. Radeon RX 480 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. The card's dimensions are 240 mm x 95 mm x 35 mm, and it features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 229 US Dollars.
Being a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon RX 480 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 150 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort. Radeon RX 480 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. The card's dimensions are 240 mm x 95 mm x 35 mm, and it features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 229 US Dollars.
Graphics Processor
Graphics Card
- Release Date
- Jun 29th, 2016
- Generation
-
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
- Predecessor
- Pirate Islands
- Successor
- Polaris
- Production
- Active
- Launch Price
- 229 USD
- Bus Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Reviews
- 86 in our database
Relative Performance
Based on TPU review data: "Performance Summary" at 1920x1080, 4K for 2080 Ti and faster.
Clock Speeds
- Base Clock
- 1120 MHz
- Boost Clock
- 1266 MHz
- Memory Clock
-
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
- Memory Size
- 8 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Memory Bus
- 256 bit
- Bandwidth
- 256.0 GB/s
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 2304
- TMUs
- 144
- ROPs
- 32
- Compute Units
- 36
- L1 Cache
- 16 KB (per CU)
- L2 Cache
- 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
- Pixel Rate
- 40.51 GPixel/s
- Texture Rate
- 182.3 GTexel/s
- FP16 (half) performance
- 5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
- FP32 (float) performance
- 5.834 TFLOPS
- FP64 (double) performance
- 364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Board Design
- Slot Width
- Dual-slot
- Length
- 240 mm
9.4 inches
- Width
- 95 mm
3.7 inches
- Height
- 35 mm
1.4 inches
- TDP
- 150 W
- Suggested PSU
- 450 W
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
- Power Connectors
- 1x 6-pin
- Board Number
- C940,
D009-47
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 (12_0)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.1
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- Shader Model
- 6.4
Ellesmere GPU Notes
Architecture Codename: Arctic Islands Codename: Polaris 10 Old Codename: Cozumel / Hawaii Refresh CLRX Version: GCN 1.2 Graphics/Compute: GFX8 (gfx803) Display Core Engine: 11.2 Unified Video Decoder: 6.3 Video Compression Engine: 3.4 |
Retail boards based on this design (69)
Name | GPU Clock | Boost Clock | Memory Clock | Other Changes |
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AMD Radeon RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
ASUS DUAL RX 480 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 242 mm/9.5 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
ASUS DUAL RX 480 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 242 mm/9.5 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
ASUS DUAL RX 480 OC 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1300 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 242 mm/9.5 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
ASUS DUAL RX 480 OC 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1305 MHz | 2000 MHz | 242 mm/9.5 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
ASUS RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
ASUS ROG STRIX RX 480 GAMING
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 298 mm/11.7 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
ASUS ROG STRIX RX 480 GAMING OC
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1120 MHz | 1310 MHz | 2000 MHz | 298 mm/11.7 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
Dataland RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
Dataland RX 480 DualCool 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
Dataland RX 480 DualCool 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1279 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
Dataland RX 480 X-Serial 4 GB
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1278 MHz | 1330 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 282 mm/11.1 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
Dataland RX 480 X-Serial 8 GB
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1278 MHz | 1330 MHz | 2000 MHz | 282 mm/11.1 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
Dataland RX 480 X-Serial LE
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1278 MHz | 1290 MHz | 2000 MHz | 282 mm/11.1 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
Diamond RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
GIGABYTE RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
GIGABYTE RX 480 G1 Gaming 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1290 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 232 mm/9.1 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
GIGABYTE RX 480 G1 Gaming 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1290 MHz | 2000 MHz | 232 mm/9.1 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
HIS RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
HIS RX 480 IceQ X2 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
HIS RX 480 IceQ X2 OC
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1120 MHz | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
HIS RX 480 IceQ X2 Roaring OC
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1120 MHz | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
HIS RX 480 IceQ X2 Roaring Turbo
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1120 MHz | 1338 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
MAXSUN RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
MAXSUN RX 480 JetStream
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1120 MHz | 1320 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
MAXSUN RX 480 JetStream
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 4 GB |
MSI RX 480 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
MSI RX 480 ARMOR 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 4 GB, 269 mm/10.6 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 ARMOR 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 269 mm/10.6 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 ARMOR 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 269 mm/10.6 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 ARMOR OC 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1291 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 269 mm/10.6 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 ARMOR OC 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1291 MHz | 2000 MHz | 269 mm/10.6 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 GAMING 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1279 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 276 mm/10.9 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 GAMING 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1279 MHz | 2000 MHz | 276 mm/10.9 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 GAMING X 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1303 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 276 mm/10.9 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
MSI RX 480 GAMING X 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1303 MHz | 2000 MHz | 276 mm/10.9 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
PCYES RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
PowerColor Red Devil RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1330 MHz | 2000 MHz | 310 mm/12.2 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
PowerColor Red Dragon RX 480 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 255 mm/10 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
PowerColor Red Dragon RX 480 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1279 MHz | 2000 MHz | 255 mm/10 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
PowerColor Red Dragon RX 480 V2 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 255 mm/10 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
PowerColor RX 480 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB |
PowerColor RX 480 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
Sapphire NITRO RX 480 OC 4 GB
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1202 MHz | 1306 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 230 mm/9.1 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
Sapphire NITRO RX 480 OC 8 GB
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1202 MHz | 1306 MHz | 1750 MHz | 230 mm/9.1 inches, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 480 OC 4 GB
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1208 MHz | 1276 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 480 OC 4 GB
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1208 MHz | 1306 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 480 OC 8 GB
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1208 MHz | 1306 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 480 OC 8 GB
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1208 MHz | 1276 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 480 OC 8 GB
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1208 MHz | 1342 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort |
Sapphire RX 480 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB |
Sapphire RX 480 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
VisionTek RX 480
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
VisionTek RX 480 Overclocked
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1120 MHz | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
XFX GTR RX 480 Black Edition
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1120 MHz | 1338 MHz | 2000 MHz | 280 mm/11 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
XFX GTR RX 480 Triple X Edition
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1120 MHz | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 280 mm/11 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
XFX RS RX 480 Double Edition 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
XFX RS RX 480 Triple X Best Buy Exclusive 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB |
XFX RS RX 480 Triple X Best Buy Exclusive 8 GB
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1120 MHz | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
XFX RS RX 480 Triple X Crimson Edition
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1120 MHz | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
XFX RS RX 480 Triple X Edition
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1120 MHz | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
XFX RX 480 4 GB
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 4 GB |
XFX RX 480 Black Edition
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1120 MHz | 1328 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
XFX RX 480 Patriot Edition
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
XFX RX 480 Triple X Edition
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1120 MHz | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | |
Yeston RX 480 GAEA
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 2x DVI 1x HDMI 1x DisplayPort |
Yeston RX 480 GAMEACE
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1120 MHz | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 250 mm/9.8 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |
Yeston RX 480 GAMEACE TOP
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1120 MHz | 1340 MHz | 2000 MHz | 250 mm/9.8 inches, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort |