12 Jul 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The Radeon RX 480X 8GB will easily meet recommended system requirements of games released today. This is a strong benchmarker on modern games and can often return excellent frame rates at high and ultra 1080p. But the Radeon RX 480X 8GB can also run 1440p pc system requirements. Radeon RX 480X 8GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon RX 480X 8GB. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2021. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 725 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Running at 1080p this card is predicted to get a reasonable frame rate from Battlefield 2042 with 50 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Star Citizen which is predicted to return a good 66 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular F1 2021 which we saw getting a reasonable 54 FPS.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the Radeon RX 480X 8GB at 1440p and researched how Battlefield 2042 might perform on it leading us to predict a playable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 70 FPS, Medium: 54 FPS, High: 48 FPS and Ultra: 38 FPS. We then checked out Star Citizen which we predict would have a set of graphics results as followed, L: 132FPS, M: 104FPS, H: 70FPS, U: 50FPS. And another popular game was F1 2021 that returned L: 108FPS, M: 85FPS, H: 57FPS, U: 41FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the Radeon RX 480X 8GB is a good choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon RX 480X 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 480X 8GB in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for around 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 480X 8GB? A suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon RX 480X 8GB is the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 6GB GDDR5, which is 20% more powerful and can run 908 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 26% better and can run 953 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.