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AMD Radeon RX 480
AMD's Polaris 10 flagship for mainstream gaming enables 36 compute units (2,304 stream processors) on a 14nm process, paired with 8GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus. A 4GB version launched at $199; the 8GB model carried a suggested price of $229. Typical board power is 150W via one 6-pin connector.
Pros
- 8GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus gives 256GB/s of bandwidth
- 2,304 stream processors at up to 1,266MHz are rated by AMD at up to 5.8 TFLOPs
- Single 6-pin power connector with a 150W typical board power
- 14nm FinFET process with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support
Cons
- No ray tracing hardware or machine-learning upscaling, as the card predates both
- Typical board power of 150W is high for its performance class compared with later cards
- Reference blower cooler design; the card is long out of production
- The 8GB price was reported at $229 by some sources and $239 by others
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Radeon RX 480
General
- Announced
- 2016
- Architecture
- Polaris (GCN 4)
- Process
- 14 nm
- TDP
- 150 W
- Power connector
- 1x 6-pin
Cores & Clocks
- Shading units
- 2,304
- Base clock
- 1,120 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1,266 MHz
Memory
- VRAM
- 8 GB
- VRAM type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Time Spy
- 4,138Bottom 15%
- PassMark G3D
- 8,525Bottom 12%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Radeon RX 480 good in 2026?
The AMD Radeon RX 480 earns an Inno Score of 34.8/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. AMD's Polaris 10 flagship for mainstream gaming enables 36 compute units (2,304 stream processors) on a 14nm process, paired with 8GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus. A 4GB version launched at $199; the 8GB model carried a suggested price of $229. Typical board power is 150W via one 6-pin connector.
What are the key specs of the AMD Radeon RX 480?
VRAM: 8 GB · Boost clock: 1,266 MHz · TDP: 150 W · 3DMark Time Spy: 4,138
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Radeon RX 480?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Arc A380, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super, AMD Radeon RX 470 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
