Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and a device for notifying reference signal configuration information, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: coding, according to channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information, the CSI-RS configuration information, to obtain a CSI-RS configuration information code; storing a mapping relation between the CSI-RS configuration information code and the CSI-RS configuration information, and sending the mapping relation to a UE for storage; searching, in the stored mapping relation between the CSI-RS configuration information code and the CSI-RS configuration information, for a CSI-RS configuration information code corresponding to CSI-RS configuration information to be notified; and sending the found CSI-RS configuration information code to the UE, so that the UE determines CSI-RS configuration information according to the received CSI-RS configuration information code and the mapping relation between the CSI-RS configuration information code and the CSI-RS configuration information.