Right so let’s get in about the tests and up first is the synthetic AIDA64 Engineer GPU tests and straight away the Memory Copy is down on most GPU’s in the chart below. We usually see a very strong showing from AMD’s GPUs in this test, fortunately the Memory Read and Write have strong results.
FLOPS next, and a bit of a mixed bag. For Single-Precision the RX 480 is very much last generation, but comes back strongly in the Double-Precision results. With that said, the best performer is the GPU that always seems to make an appearance high on our charts frequently, the XFX R9 390X DD.
Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 480 8Gb Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 7.5
Performance - 8
Price - 8.2
Consumer Experience - 7
7.7
AMD are excellent at aggressive price campaigns in general and against Nvidia, and the RX 480 is no different. It is cheaper than the R9 390X when it launched by some margin. The question remains as it did when we reviewed the XFX Radeon R9 390X 8GB DD Black Edition, should you upgrade. The answer this time is yes, for the price point, the modern revisions including FinFET 14 process technology, it’s got potential, features and value. The Nvidia GTX 1080 is just over twice the price, the RX 480 isn’t always half as fast.