AMD unveils new Radeon RX 500-series graphics cards

18 April 2017
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AMD has unveiled its new Radeon RX 500-series graphics cards.

The new graphics cards are based on AMD’s Polaris GPU architecture and offer a performance improvement over the Radeon RX 400 series.

Radeon RX 500 graphics cards are manufactured on a 14nm process node and feature numerous tweaks and improvements compared to the previous generation of Polaris chips.

The new graphics chips boast better power efficiency and higher base clocks, although they are set to be outperformed by AMD’s more expensive Vega graphics cards – coming later this year.

Specifications
Radeon RX 580 Radeon RX 570 Radeon RX 560 Radeon RX 550
Graphics Processor Polaris 20 XTR Polaris 20 XL Polaris 11 Polaris 12
Stream Processors 2,304 2,048 1,024 512
Base Clock 1,257MHz 1,168MHz 1,175MHz
Boost Clock 1,340MHz 1,244MHz 1,257MHz 1,183MHz
Memory Speed 8Gbps 7Gbps 7Gbps
RAM 4GB/8GB GDDR5 4GB GDDR5 2GB GDDR5 2GB GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth 256GB/s 224GB/s 112GB/s
Memory Bus 256-bit 256-bit 128-bit 128-bit
TDP 185W 150W
Price $199/$229 $169 $99 $79

This article first appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.

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  1. Peter Pan
    19.04.2017 at 07:49

    I want benchmarks!!!

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