AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560 XT and AMD Radeon RX 560 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Launch date 13 March 2019 vs 18 April 2017

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560

  • Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1090-1175 MHz vs 973 MHz
  • Around 12% higher boost clock speed: 1200-1275 MHz vs 1073 MHz
  • Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 60-80 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 6600 MHz
  • Around 78% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 57671 vs 32383
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1090-1175 MHz vs 973 MHz
Boost clock speed 1200-1275 MHz vs 1073 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60-80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 6600 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 57671 vs 32383

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
32383
57671
Name AMD Radeon RX 560 XT AMD Radeon RX 560
Geekbench - OpenCL 32383 57671
PassMark - G3D Mark 3651
PassMark - G2D Mark 496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 56.81
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 775.281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.602
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 257.062
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1810

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT AMD Radeon RX 560

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Ellesmere Polaris 21
GCN generation 4th Gen 4th Gen
Launch date 13 March 2019 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 718 520
Type Desktop Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $99
Price now $104.99
Value for money (0-100) 54.35

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1073 MHz 1200-1275 MHz
Core clock speed 973 MHz 1090-1175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 60-80 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 3,000 million
Compute units 14/16
Floating-point performance 2.6 TFLOPs
Pipelines 1024
Pixel fill rate 20.40 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 896/1024
Texture fill rate 81.60 GTexel/s
Texture Units 64

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Length 241 mm 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt

API support

DirectX 12.0 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Memory clock speed 6600 MHz 7000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)