GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon RX 560
CORE STATE
Polaris 21
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1275 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 970
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
148 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 560
GTX 970
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,024
1,664
+62.5%
Shaders
1,024
1,664
+62.5%
TMUs
64
104
+62.5%
ROPs
16
56
+250.0%
Compute Units
16
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1175 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1275 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
4,096
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
224.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
20.40 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
81.60 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.611 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
2.611 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
75 W
148 W
TDP (W)
75
148
+97.3%
Suggested PSU
250 W
300 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Polaris 21
GM204
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
GeForce 900
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3,000 million
5,200 million
Die Size
123 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.4M / mm²
13.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
170 mm
6.7 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
99 USD
329 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
GeForce 700
Successor
Vega
GeForce 10