AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 560X Mobile sales 5 January 2017. This is Polaris architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 92.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 60-80 Watt.

General info

Of Radeon RX 560X Mobile's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	259
Value for money	9.33
Architecture	Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name	Polaris 11
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	5 January 2017 (5 years ago)
Price now	$520	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

Radeon RX 560X Mobile's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 560X Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1024	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	1172 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1275 MHz	of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors	3,000 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	60-80 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	81.60	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	2,611 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon RX 560X Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 560X Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti)
Memory bandwidth	92.8 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 560X Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon RX 560X Mobile. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

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API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 560X Mobile, 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

Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon RX 560X Mobile. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Radeon RX 560X Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

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

Full HD

39

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	25
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30
Battlefield 5	52
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20
Cyberpunk 2077	18
Far Cry 5	39
Far Cry New Dawn	39
Forza Horizon 4	52
Hitman 3	39
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	27
Watch Dogs: Legion	29

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21
Battlefield 5	44
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20
Cyberpunk 2077	14
Far Cry 5	36
Far Cry New Dawn	36
Forza Horizon 4	49
Hitman 3	34
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20
Metro Exodus	20
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	25
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	36
Watch Dogs: Legion	25

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	18−20
Battlefield 5	39
Cyberpunk 2077	18−20
Far Cry 5	33
Far Cry New Dawn	33
Forza Horizon 4	38
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	22
Watch Dogs: Legion	11

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20
Hitman 3	18−20
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20
Metro Exodus	18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	18−20

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	18−20
Battlefield 5	18−20
Cyberpunk 2077	18−20
Far Cry 5	18−20
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20
Forza Horizon 4	18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20
Hitman 3	18−20
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20
Metro Exodus	18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	18−20

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	18−20
Battlefield 5	18−20
Cyberpunk 2077	18−20
Far Cry 5	18−20
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20
Forza Horizon 4	18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX 560X Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

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