Radeon RX 560 vs Bonaire

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Combined performance score

Bonaire
8.20

Radeon RX 560 outperforms Bonaire by 15% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking470432
Place by popularitynot in top-10068
Value for moneyno data1.68
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameBonairePolaris 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data18 April 2017 (6 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$99
Current price$41 $381 (3.8x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8961024
Core clock speedno data1175 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1275 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data81.60
Floating-point performanceno data2,611 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data170 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data7000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.0 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMIno data+

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.2.131

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD30−35
−16.7%
35
+16.7%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 8.20 9.42
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

The Radeon RX 560 is our recommended choice as it beats the Bonaire in performance tests.


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