Features:
– Sapphire Nitro Twin Fan Black Cooler
– Removable Fans (Makes cleaning easy)
– 2x HDMI, 2x DIsplayPort & 1x DVI (Perfect for VR Setups)
– Overclocked out the box
– 1x 8-Pin power connector for improved overclocking ability
– RGB Sapphire logo with LED Mode switch for different settings (Pick any colour or turn off)
– Sapphire Nitro backplate for improved cooling and aesthetics
– Black Diamond Chokes for improved power and eliminate potential of coil whine
– Nitro Pass through cooling to further improve cooling
– Dual BIOS
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 480 8GB NITRO Gaming Graphics Card
Product status: Official | Last Update: 2016-07-27 | Report Error
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere XT
Cores : TMUs : ROPs
2304 : 144 : 32
Memory Size
8 GB GD5
Memory Bus
256 bit
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 480 8GB NITRO
Overview
Manufacturer
Sapphire
Original Series
Radeon 400
Based On
Custom Series
Sapphire NITRO
Released After
June 29th, 2016
Graphics Processing Unit
GPU Model
Ellesmere XT (Polaris 10/20)
Architecture
AMD GCN 4.0 (Polaris)
Fabrication Process
14 nm
Die Size
232 mm2
Transistors Count
5.7B
Stream Processors
2304
TMUs
144
ROPs
32
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Effective Memory Clock
8000 Mbps
Memory Configuration
Memory Size
8192 MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus Width
256-bit
Memory Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
Physical
Interface
PCI-Express 3.0 x16
Power Connectors
1× 8-pin
TDP/TBP
150 W
Recommended PSU
450 W
Multi-GPU Support
4-way
Display Outputs
DVI-D DualLink
1 ×
DisplayPort
2 ×
HDMI
2 ×
API Support
DirectX
12.0
Vulkan
1.0
OpenGL
4.5
OpenCL
2.1
Performance
Pixel Fillrate
40.5 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate
182.3 GTexel/s
Peak FP32
5.8 TFLOPS
FP32 Perf. per Watt
38.9 GFLOPS/W
FP32 Perf. per mm2
25.1 GFLOPS/mm2
1286 MHz
MIN
MIN
1286
(3)
(3)
1288
(5)
(5)
1290
(4)
(4)
1291
(2)
(2)
1292
(2)
(2)
1306
(1)
(1)
1316
(2)
(2)
1320
(2)
(2)
1325
(1)
(1)
1328
(1)
(1)
1330
(4)
(4)
1338
(2)
(2)
1340
(2)
(2)
1342
(4)
(4)
1342 MHz
MAX
MAX
| Model name | Boost | Memory | Power | Custom Series | Popularity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ASUS RX 480 4GB DUAL DUAL-RX480-4G | 1286 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 6-pin | DUAL | ||
| | ASUS RX 480 4GB DUAL OC DUAL-RX480-O4G | 1320 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 6-pin | DUAL | ||
 | ASUS RX 480 8GB | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | ASUS RX 480 8GB DUAL DUAL-RX480-8G | 1286 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | DUAL | ||
| | ASUS RX 480 8GB DUAL OC DUAL-RX480-O8G | 1325 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | DUAL | ||
 | ASUS RX 480 8GB ROG STRIX ROG STRIX-RX480-8G-GAMING | 1286 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | ROG STRIX | ||
| | ASUS RX 480 8GB ROG STRIX OC ROG STRIX-RX480-O8G-GAMING | 1330 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | ROG STRIX | ||
 | COLORFIRE RX 480 8GB Ustorm RX 480 USTORM-8GD5 EA1 | 1320 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | USTORM | ||
 | DATALAND RX 480 4GB DualCool | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | DATALAND RX 480 4GB X-Serial | 1330 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | X-Serial | ||
| | DATALAND RX 480 8GB Dual Cool | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
| | DATALAND RX 480 8GB DualCool | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | DATALAND RX 480 8GB Red Devil | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | Devil | ||
| | DATALAND RX 480 8GB X-Serial | 1330 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | X-Serial | ||
| | DATALAND RX 480 8GB X-Serial LE | 1290 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | X-Serial | ||
 | DIAMOND RX 480 8GB RX480D58G | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | GIGABYTE RX 480 4GB G1 GAMING RX480G1 GAMING-4GD | 1290 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | GAMING | ||
| | GIGABYTE RX 480 4GB WINDFORCE GV-RX480WF2-4GD | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
 | GIGABYTE RX 480 8GB | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | GIGABYTE RX 480 8GB G1 GAMING RX480G1 GAMING-4GD | 1290 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | GAMING | ||
| | GIGABYTE RX 480 8GB WINDFORCE GV-RX480WF2-4GD | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
 | HIS RX 480 4GB IceQ X2 HS-480R4LSNR | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | HIS RX 480 8GB RX 480 D5 8GB | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | HIS RX 480 8GB IceQ X2 HS-480R8LCNR | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | HIS RX 480 8GB IceQ X2 Roaring OC HS-480R8DCBR | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
| | HIS RX 480 8GB IceQ X2 Roaring Turbo HS-480R8DTBR | 1338 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
| | KUROUTOSHIKOU RX 480 8GB RD-RX480-E8GB | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | MAXSUN RX 480 8GB JetStream | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
 | MSI RX 480 4GB ARMOR | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | Armor | ||
| | MSI RX 480 4GB ARMOR OC | 1291 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | Armor | ||
 | MSI RX 480 4GB GAMING | 1292 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | GAMING | ||
| | MSI RX 480 4GB GAMING X | 1316 MHz | 1775 MHz | 1× 8-pin | GAMING | ||
 | MSI RX 480 8GB | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | MSI RX 480 8GB ARMOR | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | Armor | ||
| | MSI RX 480 8GB ARMOR OC | 1291 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | Armor | ||
| | MSI RX 480 8GB GAMING | 1292 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | GAMING | ||
| | MSI RX 480 8GB GAMING X | 1316 MHz | 2025 MHz | 1× 8-pin | GAMING | ||
 | PCYES RX 470 4GB | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | PCYES RX 480 8GB | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | POWERCOLOR RX 480 4GB AXRX 480 4GBD5-M3DH | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | POWERCOLOR RX 480 4GB Red Dragon AXRX 480 4GBD5-3DHD | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 6-pin | Red Dragon | ||
 | POWERCOLOR RX 480 4GB Red Dragon V2 AXRX 480 4GBD5-3DHDV2 | 1266 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | POWERCOLOR RX 480 8GB AXRX 480 8GBD5-M3DH | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | POWERCOLOR RX 480 8GB Devil 13 | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
| | POWERCOLOR RX 480 8GB Red Devil AXRX 480 8GBD5-3DHV2/OC | 1290 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | DEVIL | ||
| | POWERCOLOR RX 480 8GB Red Devil AXRX 480 8GBD5-3DH/OC | 1330 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | DEVIL | ||
| | POWERCOLOR RX 480 8GB Red Dragon AXRX 480 8GBD5-3DHD | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | Red Dragon | ||
 | SAPPHIRE RX 480 4GB NITRO OC 11260-13 | 1342 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | NITRO | ||
 | SAPPHIRE RX 480 4GB NITRO+ 11260-02-20G | 1342 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | NITRO | ||
 | SAPPHIRE RX 480 8GB 21260-01-20G | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | SAPPHIRE RX 480 8GB 21260-00-20G | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | SAPPHIRE RX 480 8GB NITRO | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | NITRO | ||
 | SAPPHIRE RX 480 8GB NITRO OC 11260-20 | 1306 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1× 8-pin | NITRO | ||
| | SAPPHIRE RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC 11260-07-20G | 1342 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | NITRO | ||
| | SAPPHIRE RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC 11260-01-20G | 1342 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | NITRO | ||
| | SAPPHIRE RX 480 8GB OC 11260-01-20G | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | VISIONTEK RX 480 8GB Overclocked Edition 900898 | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | VISIONTEK RX 480 8GB Polaris Edition 900888 | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | XFX RX 480 8GB Black Edition RX-480M8BBA6 | 1328 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
| | XFX RX 480 8GB Core Edition RX-480M4BFA6 | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | XFX RX 480 8GB Crimson Edition RX-480P8LFR6 | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | Double Dissipation | ||
 | XFX RX 480 8GB GTR RX-480P8DFA6 | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
| | XFX RX 480 8GB GTR Black Edition RX-480P8DBA6 | 1338 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
 | XFX RX 480 8GB Patriot Edition | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
 | XFX RX 480 8GB RS 'Best Buy' RX-480P8LFLR | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | |||
| | XFX RX 480 8GB XXX OC RX-480M8BFA6 | 1288 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | YESTON RX 480 8GB | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 6-pin | |||
 | YESTON RX 480 8GB GAMEACE | 1266 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | GAMEACE | ||
 | YESTON RX 480 8GB GAMEACE TOP RX 480 8G D5 ???? TOP | 1340 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | GAMEACE | ||
 | YESTON RX 480 8GB GAMEACE X RX 480 8G D5 ???? X | 1340 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1× 8-pin | GAMEACE |
| Model | Cores | Boost Clock | Memory Clock | Memory Config. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | AMD Radeon RX 480 | ||||
| | AMD Radeon RX 470 | ||||
| | AMD Radeon RX 470D | ||||
 | AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP | ||||
| | AMD Radeon RX 460 | ||||
 | AMD Radeon R7 430 | ||||
| AMD Radeon R5 435 | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC |