10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid to low level graphics card, the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements.

Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB where we look at the bigger games played in 2023. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 443 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Star Citizen and predict it will deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 132 FPS, Medium: 104 FPS, High: 70 FPS and Ultra: 50 FPS. We proceeded to look at FIFA 22 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a strong 94 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Star Citizen and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 101 FPS, Medium: 79 FPS, High: 53 FPS and Ultra: 38 FPS. We then checked the performance on FIFA 22 to see if that runs well. It was good with a 72 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB we get the impression that it is capable of delivering a solid gaming experience across larger screen sized monitors. We expect to see High and Ultra graphics settings across most games at 1440p with this GPU.

How many years will the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the Radeon RX 480 GIGABYTE G1 Gaming 4GB.