AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 560
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1560MHz vs 1275MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+175%
7.188 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 560
2.611 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+311%
7633
Radeon RX 560
1855
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+345%
3561
Radeon RX 560
799
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+933%
31
Radeon RX 560
3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+433%
64
Radeon RX 560
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+371%
99
Radeon RX 560
21
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+327%
47
Radeon RX 560
11
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+187%
92
Radeon RX 560
32
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+212%
125
Radeon RX 560
40
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+80%
170
Radeon RX 560
94
Graphics Card
Jan 2020
Release Date
Apr 2017
Navi
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1130 MHz
Base Clock
1175 MHz
1560 MHz
Boost Clock
1275 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
16
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
1024
144
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
99.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.40 GPixel/s
224.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
81.60 GTexel/s
14.38 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
2.611 TFLOPS
7.188 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.611 TFLOPS
449.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
163.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Polaris 21
Navi 10 XLE
(215-0917338)
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XT
(215-0908004)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
7 nm
Process Size
14 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
3 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
6.4
