Lastly for AIDA64 is the GPU FPS test and the Sapphire Radeon RX 480 8Gb doesn’t perform well in both tests.
They may be synthetic, but they do give a representation of the type of performance when managing these instructions.
Unigine Heaven is an industry standard benchmark and though synthetic, it is a rendered graphical test, which you can also replicate yourself. Test your current set up and see how you compare. Unigine Heaven next and we use the Extreme preset for all of the Unigine Heaven tests we run, so all cards do well. The Sapphire RX 480 8Gb doesn’t do that well, a score of 1670 is reasonable, but compared to the competition, it only beats the Sapphire ITX Compact Radeon R9 380.
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.