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Radeon RX 480
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VRAM
8 GB
CUDA
2,304
FP32
5.834 TF
Bandwidth
224 GB/s
TDP
150W
Boost
1266 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute5.834 TFLOPS6%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s13%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity8 GB25%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units2,30411%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency12/10021%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy7,560pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)3,240pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)988spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute38,400pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming21
Ray tracing18
AI / Compute16
Creator / 3D19
Power efficiency12
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 25 fps
1080p
47
1440p
20
4K
9
Counter-Strike 2avg 57 fps
1080p
112
1440p
42
4K
18
Fortniteavg 44 fps
1080p
77
1440p
38
4K
17
Battlefield 5avg 58 fps
1080p
85
1440p
56
4K
32
Far Cry 5avg 46 fps
1080p
66
1440p
47
4K
25
Valorantavg 167 fps
1080p
150
1440p
234
4K
116
Average FPS across all PC games
1080p
82fps
1440p
54fps
4K
39fps
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($229) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
1080p
$3.15
1440p
$4.80
4K
$6.78
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners love the solid 1080p performance and great value for the price. The usual gripes are the fan noise under load and the card running a bit warm.
Pros
- Plays modern games at high settings
- Great for 1080p and 1440p gaming
- Handles VR without breaking a sweat
- Aged well, still runs current titles
Cons
- Needs more power than expected
- Drivers were unstable at launch
- Poor performance in newer games
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 2,304
- TMUs
- 144
- ROPs
- 32
- L2 cache
- 2 MB
Memory
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 8000 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1120 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1266 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 5.834 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 5.834 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 41 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 182.3 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 150W
- Suggested PSU
- 300W
- Power connectors
- 1x 6-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 240 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- DirectX® 12
- Shader Model
- 6.7
- OpenGL
- 4.5
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- +
Verdict
Our verdict on the RX 480
A solid 1080p card that made high-quality VR gaming affordable when it launched, but its age shows.
Get it if you need a cheap, used card for 1080p gaming and don't mind older drivers and features. Skip it if you want modern ray tracing or power efficiency, as newer GPUs are far better.
Buy it if…
- You want a solid 1080p card for older games without breaking the bank.
- You need a cheap upgrade for a system from the mid-2010s.
- You run Linux and want reliable, open-source driver support.
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