10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid to low level graphics card, the Radeon RX 480 MSI GAMING 4G is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements.

Radeon RX 480 MSI GAMING 4G is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

This PC hardware performance game review for the Radeon RX 480 MSI GAMING 4G graphics card, when running 2023 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 443 games in the list.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the Radeon RX 480 MSI GAMING 4G can run Dying Light 2 at 1080p and saw it return playable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 78 FPS, Medium: 61 FPS, High: 41 FPS and Ultra: 30 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Star Citizen is predicted to return a reasonable 50 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the Radeon RX 480 MSI GAMING 4G ran Dying Light 2 to a weak performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 59 FPS, Medium: 47 FPS, High: 32 FPS and Ultra: 23 FPS. Another game researched was Star Citizen with predictions of L: 101FPS, M: 79FPS, H: 53FPS, U: 38FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Battlefield 2042, which returned L: 26FPS, M: 21FPS, H: 14FPS, U: 10FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the Radeon RX 480 MSI GAMING 4G is not a first choice gaming resolution. While this graphics card would likely be more suited to 1080p gaming, you may be able to make some graphical tweaks in the game options to improve your stability at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon RX 480 MSI GAMING 4G graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 480 MSI GAMING 4G 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 MSI GAMING 4G? 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 MSI GAMING 4G.