AMD Radeon RX 570X: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 570X sales 11 April 2018. This is a GCN 4.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 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 120 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 570X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	542
Value for money	3.64
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	Polaris 20
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	11 April 2018 (5 years old)
Current price	$186	of 158889 (A100 PCIe)

Technical specs

Radeon RX 570X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 570X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1168 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1244 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	5,700 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	159.2	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	5,095 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 570X 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 570X: 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	8 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 570X. 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, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 570X, 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 570X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. 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.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 570X 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.

Relative perfomance

Radeon RX 570X's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

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