MSI AMD Radeon RX 480 AMD Computer Graphics Cards

The RX 480 is a great older card, it has just slightly less performance than the 580 or the 5500xt. The 480 I got was listed as MSI but turned out to be an XFX Reference (blower) card and is an 8G model. I chose the blower card for my build to keep the heat down on a Xeon\X99 setup as they tend to run warm it doesn't need to fight the GPU heat recycled in the case from an open fan card. It handles content creation and rendering quite well, it also runs games at 1080p using ultra or very high settings and running them over 60 fps on my freesync monitor. The only downside to used video cards is that you never know how abused they are. This one had the heatsink filled with pet hair and the GPU got so hot it "blued" the copper on the heatsink. After a good cleaning, I put new thermal pads on the VRMs and Memory and repasted the GPU chip. The card works great. As for noise, it is a blower card and I run a custom fan curve so I expect some but it isn't like running a hairdryer, I have had some laptops run louder then this GPU. Overall it is a great card if the price is right and it meets your needs. Just make sure you clean and service it before you install it.

Bizarre eBay asks me to review a cancelled order (11/21/19). The listing was for a RX480, but the seller said in the fine print that it actually was a RX470. Anyway long ago (10/21/18) I actually did buy an MSI RX480 on eBay & it is still working fine. I was building a second computer & was so happy with the first RX480 that I wanted a second for the second computer. I'm not a gamer; I primarily use my computers to analyze stock market data & have two Seiki SE39UY04 39-Inch 4K HDMI TVs set up as one really wide 7680x2160 display so I can have really wide spreadsheets. The RX480 w/ AMD Radeon Eyefinity software does this great! Highly recommended!

Although this is a card from the later 2016 and is a 4gn model. Which makes it worse than the 8gb model if you find one under 80 including shipping it will get you that 200+fps on medium to high(finely tunned). Most important thing with most graphics card is to overclock them to get that extra performance as long as the thermals aren't above 60c on idle or even under load. The strain long term of the overclock is rather small compared to the value to performance you obtain by doing this.

This is an amazing card! I've got it in a hyper-budget gaming pc on an Asus B350 mobo, 8Gb UDIMM and an Athlon 200ge, and I can still blast out A AS games on high or better, 1080p @60fps. Highly recommended!

Very good GPU for the money. Because of my inexperience, I had a bit of trouble installing it with my unwilling case. After a day or two of troubleshooting, however, I booted it up and was very impressed.

The title said 480, but the picture was of a RX 570 so I knew I might not actually get an rx480. They perform very well and never go above 61 Deg C at 1080p.

I bought 2 of these for a build for christmas and they are great cards. Just change the thermal paste