Radeon RX 560 896SP: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 560 896SP sales 4 July 2017. 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 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 112.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 170 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 45 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 560 896SP: 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 | Polaris 21 | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 4 July 2017 (8 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 560 896SP's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 560 896SP's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 896 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
Core clock speed | 1090 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
Boost clock speed | 1175 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
Number of transistors | 3,000 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 45 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
Texture fill rate | 65.80 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
Floating-point processing power | 2.106 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
TMUs | 56 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
L1 Cache | 224 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
L2 Cache | 1024 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 x8 | |
Length | 170 mm | |
Width | 2-slot | |
Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 560 896SP: 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
Memory bandwidth | 112.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 560 896SP. 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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon RX 560 896SP, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
Shader Model | 6.4 | |
OpenGL | 4.6 | |
OpenCL | 2.0 | |
Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 560 896SP is GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.
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