Radeon RX 560 XT: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 560 XT sales 13 March 2019. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.65 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 211.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 560 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Ellesmere | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 13 March 2019 (7 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 560 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 560 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1792 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 973 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1073 MHz | of 3130 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB) |
| Number of transistors | 5,700 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 120.2 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 3.846 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 112 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L1 Cache | 448 KB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 560 XT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 241 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 560 XT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1650 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 211.2 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 560 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon RX 560 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 560 XT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 560 XT is GeForce GTX 970.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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