GPU Comparison

# NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon Pro 560

The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon Pro 560 occupy completely different corners of the GPU landscape, separated by nearly seven years of architecture evolution and a 12 GB memory gap. The data shows a 403.6% lead for the RTX 2000 Ada in Geekbench OpenCL and a 413.6% lead in Geekbench Vulkan, making direct competition almost moot, yet each card still has a distinct purpose depending on the workload and platform constraints.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 2000 Ada Generation wins every head-to-head benchmark in the dataset, and it does so by margins that are difficult to overstate. In Geekbench OpenCL, it scores 78,074 against the Radeon Pro 560's 15,504, a 403.6% advantage. In Geekbench Vulkan, the gap widens slightly to 413.6%, with the NVIDIA card posting 83,360 versus 16,232. This is not a competitive matchup; it is a generational gap expressed in raw numbers.

The Radeon Pro 560's only benchmark win comes in Geekbench Metal, where it scores 20,918, a test the RTX 2000 Ada does not appear in. That result matters for macOS users, as the Radeon Pro 560 is designed for portable Mac systems (its slot width is listed as "IGP" and display outputs are "Portable Device Dependent"). The Radeon Pro 560's 61st percentile versus all GPUs and average benchmark score of 17,551 place it in the same performance neighborhood as the AMD Radeon 780M (deltaPct -0.2) and the AMD Radeon Pro 460 (deltaPct 0.2). For its era and thermal envelope, it was a capable mobile workstation part.

The RTX 2000 Ada, by contrast, sits at the 63rd percentile with an average benchmark score of 18,954, trading blows with the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 (deltaPct -0.4), AMD Radeon RX 6600 (deltaPct -0.4), and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (deltaPct -0.5). Its wins are concentrated in compute-heavy and modern API workloads, where its Ada Lovelace architecture and dedicated RT and tensor cores provide capabilities the Radeon Pro 560 cannot match.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap between these two GPUs is vast. The RTX 2000 Ada uses the AD107 chip on TSMC's 5 nm process, packing 18,900 million transistors into a 159 mm² die, a transistor density of 118.9M per mm². The Radeon Pro 560 uses the Polaris 21 chip on GlobalFoundries' 14 nm process, with 3,000 million transistors on a 123 mm² die, yielding just 24.4M transistors per mm².

The NVIDIA card is built on Ada Lovelace architecture, part of the Workstation Ada (x000A) generation, and includes 22 RT cores and 88 tensor cores, hardware that simply does not exist on the Radeon Pro 560. The AMD card uses GCN 4.0 architecture from the Radeon Pro Mac (500 Series) generation, which predates ray tracing acceleration and tensor-based AI workloads entirely.

Shading unit counts tell a similar story: the RTX 2000 Ada has 2,816 shading units, 88 TMUs, and 48 ROPs, while the Radeon Pro 560 has 1,024 shading units, 64 TMUs, and only 16 ROPs. The NVIDIA card's 48 ROPs give it more than triple the pixel throughput of the AMD card (102.2 GPixel/s versus 14.51 GPixel/s), which directly impacts rasterization performance at high resolutions.

The memory subsystems are equally divergent. The RTX 2000 Ada uses 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus with 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth, while the Radeon Pro 560 uses 4 GB of GDDR5 on the same 128-bit bus but with only 81.28 GB/s. Both cards use a PCIe x8 interface, but the NVIDIA part runs PCIe 4.0 while the AMD part is limited to PCIe 3.0.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The Geekbench OpenCL result is the clearest indicator of the performance chasm. The RTX 2000 Ada scores 78,074, which is 403.6% higher than the Radeon Pro 560's 15,504. This benchmark stresses general-purpose compute across the GPU's shading units, and the NVIDIA card's 2.8x shading unit advantage, combined with its much higher clock speeds (1620 MHz base, 2130 MHz boost versus no listed clocks for AMD), explains the magnitude of the win.

Geekbench Vulkan shows an even larger relative gap. The RTX 2000 Ada scores 83,360 against the Radeon Pro 560's 16,232, a 413.6% delta. Vulkan is a modern low-level API, and the Ada Lovelace architecture was designed with explicit support for it (Vulkan 1.4), while the GCN 4.0 part only reaches Vulkan 1.3. The RTX 2000 Ada also benefits from its 12.00 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput versus the Radeon Pro 560's 1.858 TFLOPS, a 6.5x raw compute advantage that shows up in any compute-bound workload.

The only benchmark where the Radeon Pro 560 has a recorded score without a direct NVIDIA counterpart is Geekbench Metal (20,918). This is relevant for macOS ecosystems, where Metal is the primary graphics API. The Radeon Pro 560's GCN architecture has mature Metal drivers from its long tenure in Mac systems, and its "Portable Device Dependent" display outputs indicate it was designed for integration into laptops rather than standalone workstation cards.

FAQ

Q: Which card has more VRAM, and does it matter?

A: The RTX 2000 Ada Generation has 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, while the Radeon Pro 560 has 4 GB of GDDR5. The 12 GB difference directly translates to the ability to handle larger datasets, higher-resolution textures, and more complex scenes without running out of memory. The RTX 2000 Ada also has 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth versus 81.28 GB/s on the Radeon Pro 560.

Q: Does the Radeon Pro 560 support ray tracing or tensor operations?

A: No. The Radeon Pro 560 has no RT cores and no tensor cores listed in its specifications. The RTX 2000 Ada includes 22 RT cores and 88 tensor cores, enabling hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI-based features like DLSS that the AMD card cannot perform.

Q: Which card is better for modern API workloads like Vulkan?

A: The RTX 2000 Ada is decisively better, scoring 83,360 in Geekbench Vulkan versus the Radeon Pro 560's 16,232, a 413.6% advantage. The NVIDIA card supports Vulkan 1.4 and DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), while the AMD card only reaches Vulkan 1.3 and DirectX 12 (12_0).

Q: Is the Radeon Pro 560 still being produced?

A: No. The Radeon Pro 560 is marked as "End-of-life" in production status, with a release date of 2017-04-17. The RTX 2000 Ada is "Active" with a release date of 2024-02-11.

Q: What was the RTX 2000 Ada's launch MSRP?

A: The RTX 2000 Ada Generation had a launch MSRP of 649 USD. The Radeon Pro 560 has no listed launch MSRP in the data.

Q: How do these cards compare to their nearest rivals?

A: The RTX 2000 Ada's average benchmark score of 18,954 sits within 0.5% of the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 (19,030), AMD Radeon RX 6600 (19,036), and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (19,049). The Radeon Pro 560's average of 17,551 is within 0.5% of the AMD Radeon 780M (17,588) and AMD Radeon Pro 460 (17,509).

Specification Differences

| Specification | NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation | AMD Radeon Pro 560 |

|---|---|---|

| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | GCN 4.0 |

| Process node | 5 nm | 14 nm |

| Transistors | 18,900 million | 3,000 million |

| Die size | 159 mm² | 123 mm² |

| Memory size | 16 GB | 4 GB |

| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |

| Memory bandwidth | 256.0 GB/s | 81.28 GB/s |

| Shading units | 2,816 | 1,024 |

| TMUs | 88 | 64 |

| ROPs | 48 | 16 |

| RT cores | 22 | None |

| Tensor cores | 88 | None |

| FP32 performance | 12.00 TFLOPS | 1.858 TFLOPS |

| Pixel rate | 102.2 GPixel/s | 14.51 GPixel/s |

| Texture rate | 187.4 GTexel/s | 58.05 GTexel/s |

| TDP | 70 W | 75 W |

| Bus interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x8 |

| DirectX support | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_0) |

| Vulkan support | 1.4 | 1.3 |

| Production status | Active | End-of-life |

| Release date | 2024-02-11 | 2017-04-17 |

The Verdict

The data makes the choice straightforward for anyone building a workstation today: the RTX 2000 Ada Generation is the only viable option between these two. Its 403.6% OpenCL lead and 413.6% Vulkan lead over the Radeon Pro 560 are not incremental improvements, they represent a completely different class of hardware. The NVIDIA card offers 4x the memory, 6.5x the FP32 compute, hardware ray tracing, tensor cores, and a modern API feature set that the AMD card simply cannot provide.

The Radeon Pro 560's only justification is legacy macOS compatibility. Its Geekbench Metal score of 20,918 and its "Portable Device Dependent" display outputs indicate it was built for a specific era of Mac laptops. If you are maintaining or using a 2017-era Mac system, the Radeon Pro 560 is what you have. But as a new purchase, there is no scenario where the data supports choosing it over the RTX 2000 Ada.

The RTX 2000 Ada sits at the 63rd percentile against all GPUs, performing on par with desktop cards like the AMD Radeon RX 6600 and mobile parts like the RTX 4050 Mobile. Its 70 W TDP and lack of power connectors make it an efficient, low-profile addition to a workstation, and its 16 GB GDDR6 memory with 256.0 GB/s bandwidth handles large compute workloads that would instantly exhaust the Radeon Pro 560's 4 GB frame buffer.

For compute, rendering, or any modern graphics workload, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation is the clear choice. The Radeon Pro 560 is a relic of a previous generation, best left to the legacy Mac systems it was designed for. The benchmark data does not suggest a close contest, it suggests two products from different eras, and the newer one wins by every measurable metric.