Radeon RX 560X: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon RX 560X provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 8.76% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 560X sales 11 April 2018. 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 75 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 560X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 547 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 9.04 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Polaris 21 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 11 April 2018 (8 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 560X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 560X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1024 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 1175 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1275 MHz | of 3130 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB) |
| Number of transistors | 3,000 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 81.60 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.611 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 64 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L1 Cache | 256 KB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| 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 560X 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 560X: 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 | 128 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 112.0 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 560X. 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 560X, 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 560X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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 560X is GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost, which is slower by 6% and lower by 20 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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