Radeon RX 560 XT: specs and benchmarks

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 6.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 211.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot 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.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 560 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance 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 (5 years ago)
Current price	$160	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	973 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1073 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	5,700 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	120.2	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and 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

Memory

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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	6600 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	211.2 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 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.

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