AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 390X 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 560X Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1275 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4.2x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • 5.7x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Launch date 11 April 2018 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed 1275 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

  • 2.3x more texture fill rate: 184.8 GTexel / s vs 81.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.8x more pipelines: 2816 vs 1024
  • 2.3x better floating-point performance: 5,914 gflops vs 2,611 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 825 vs 676
  • 5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9408 vs 1810
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 184.8 GTexel / s vs 81.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2816 vs 1024
Floating-point performance 5,914 gflops vs 2,611 gflops
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 825 vs 676
PassMark - G3D Mark 9408 vs 1810

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
676
825
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1810
9408
Name AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile AMD Radeon R9 390X
PassMark - G2D Mark 676 825
PassMark - G3D Mark 1810 9408
Geekbench - OpenCL 18017
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 683.568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4242

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile AMD Radeon R9 390X

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Baffin Grenada
Launch date 11 April 2018 18 June 2015
Place in performance rating 287 284
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $429

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1275 MHz 1050 MHz
Core clock speed 1175 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,611 gflops 5,914 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 2816
Texture fill rate 81.6 GTexel / s 184.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 6,200 million
Compute units 44
Stream Processors 2816

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin

API support

Vulkan
DirectX 12
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB / s 384 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 512 bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore