AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) videocard review

AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)

Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) videocard released by AMD; release date: 4 August 2016. At the time of release, the videocard cost $450. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on GCN 4.0 microarchitecture codenamed Ellesmere.

Core clock speed - 1120 MHz. Boost clock speed - 1266 MHz. Texture fill rate - 155.1 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 2304. Floating-point performance - 5.8 TFLOPs. Manufacturing process technology - 14 nm. Transistors count - 5,700 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 150 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 4 GB. Memory bus width - 256 bit. Memory clock speed - 7000 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 224 GB/s. Shared memory - 0.

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0
Code name Ellesmere
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 4 August 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $450
Place in performance rating not rated
Price now $299.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 30.62

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1120 MHz
Floating-point performance 5.8 TFLOPs
GPU Power 110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm
Pipelines 2304
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 155.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt

API support

DirectX 12
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore

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