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Series of graphics cards by AMD
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Radeon 500 Series AMD Radeon RX 590, the flagship card of the RX 500 series
Release date April 18, 2017 (7 years ago) (2017-04-18 ) Codename Polaris Architecture GCN 1st gen GCN 3rd gen GCN 4th gen Transistors 690M (Banks) 28 nm 1.550M (Weston) 28 nm 2.200M (Lexa) 14 nm 3.000M (Baffin) 14 nm 3.000M (Polaris 21) 14 nm 5.700M (Polaris 20) 14 nm 5.700M (Polaris 30) 12 nm Fabrication process TSMC 28 nm (CMOS )Samsung /GloFo 14 nm (FinFET ) Samsung/GloFo 12 nm (FinFET)Entry-level Radeon 520 Radeon 530 Radeon 535 Radeon 540 Radeon 540X Radeon 550X Radeon RX 540 Radeon RX 540X Radeon RX 550 Radeon RX 550X Radeon RX 560 Radeon RX 560X Mid-range Radeon RX 570 Radeon RX 570X Radeon RX 580 Radeon RX 580X Radeon RX 590 DirectX OpenCL OpenCL 2.1 OpenGL OpenGL 4.5 (4.6 Windows 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+)Vulkan Vulkan 1.3 (GCN 4th gen) or Vulkan 1.2 SPIR-V Predecessor Radeon 400 series Successor GCN 4 cards supported
The Radeon 500 series is a series of graphics processors developed by AMD . These cards are based on the fourth iteration of the Graphics Core Next architecture, featuring GPUs based on Polaris 30, Polaris 20, Polaris 11, and Polaris 12 chips. Thus the RX 500 series uses the same microarchitecture and instruction set as its predecessor, while making use of improvements in the manufacturing process to enable higher clock rates.
Third-generation GCN chips are produced on a 28 nm CMOS process. Polaris (fourth-generation GCN) chips (except for Polaris 30) are produced on a 14 nm FinFET process, developed by Samsung Electronics and licensed to GlobalFoundries . Polaris 30 chips are produced on a 12 nm FinFET process, developed by Samsung and GlobalFoundries.
Chipset table
Supported display standards are: DisplayPort 1.4 HBR, HDMI 2.0b , HDR10 color.
Dual-Link DVI-D and DVI-I at resolutions up to 4096×2304 are also supported, despite ports not being present on the reference cards.
VGA-Ports at resolutions up to 2048x1536 are also supported, despite ports not being present on the reference cards, though VGA ports are mostly found on cards sold in Eastern Asia exclusively.
Sapphire RX 580 Nitro Edition
Desktop and laptop
Model (Code name )
Release Date & Price
Architecture & fab
Transistors & die size
Core
Fillrate
Processing power (GFLOPS )
Memory
TBP
Bus interface
Config
Clock (MHz )
Texture (GT /s)
Pixel (GP /s)
Single
Double
Size
Bus type & width
Clock (MT/s )
Bandwidth (GB /s)
Radeon 520 (Banks)
Apr 18, 2017 OEM
GCN 1 28 nm
690× 106 56mm2
320:20:4 5 CU
1030
20.6
4.1
659.2
41.2
1 GB 2 GB
DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit
2000 4500
16 36
?
PCIe 3.0 ×8
Radeon 530 (Weston)
GCN 3 28 nm
? 125 mm2
320:20:8 5 CU
1024
20.480
8.2
655.36
40.96
1 GB 2 GB 4 GB
DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit
1800 4500
14.4 36
384:24:8 6 CU
24.576
786.432
49.152
Radeon RX 540 (Polaris 12)
GCN 4 GloFo 14LPP
2.2× 109 101 mm2
512:32:16 8 CU
11241219
35.96839.008
17.98419.504
1150.9761248.256
71.93678.016
2 GB 4 GB
GDDR5 128-bit
6000
96
PCIe 3.0 ×8
Radeon RX 550 (Polaris 12)
Apr 20, 2017 $79 USD
11001183
35.237.856
17.618.928
1126.41211.392
70.475.712
7000
112
50 W
Radeon RX 550 640SP (Polaris 11)
Apr 20, 2017 $79 USD
3.0× 109 123 mm2
640:40:16 10 CU
10191071
40.7642.84
16.30417.136
1304.321370.88
81.5285.68
6000
96
60 W
Radeon RX 550X (Polaris 12)
Apr 11, 2018 $79 USD
2.2× 109 101 mm2
512:32:16 8 CU
11001287
35.241.184
17.620.592
1126.41317.888
70.482.368
7000
112
50 W
Radeon RX 550X 640SP (Polaris 11)
Apr 11, 2018 OEM
3.0× 109 123 mm2
640:40:16 10 CU
10191071
40.7642.84
16.30417.136
1304.321370.88
81.5285.68
6000
96
60 W
Radeon RX 560D (Polaris 21)
Jul 4, 2017 OEM and China Only
3.0× 109 123 mm2
896:56:16 14 CU
10901175
61.065.8
17,418.8
19532106
122,0131.6
65 W
Radeon RX 560 (Polaris 21)
Jul 4, 2017 $99 USD
10901175
61.065.8
17.418.8
19532106
122.0131.6
7000
112
60-80 W
Apr 18, 2017 $99 USD
1024:64:16 16 CU
11751275
75.281.6
18.820.4
24062611
150.4163.2
Radeon RX 570 (Polaris 20)
Apr 18, 2017 $169 USD
5.7× 109 232 mm2
2048:128:32 32 CU
11681244
149.5159.2
37.439.8
47845095
299.0318.4
4 GB 8 GB
GDDR5 256-bit
224
150 W
PCIe 3.0 ×16
Radeon RX 580 2048SP (Polaris 20)
Oct 15, 2018 China Only
11681284
Radeon RX 580 (Polaris 20)
Apr 18, 2017 $199 USD (4 GB) $229 USD (8 GB)
2304:144:32 36 CU
12571340
181.0193.0
40.242.9
57926175
362.0385.9
8000
256
185 W
Radeon RX 590 GME (Polaris 20)
March 9, 2020 China Only
12571380
181.0198.7
40.244.2
57926359
362.0397.4
8 GB
175 W
Radeon RX 590 (Polaris 30)
Nov 15, 2018 $279 USD
GCN 4 Samsung /GloFo 12LP (14LP+)
14691545
211.5222.5
47.049.4
67697120
423.0444.9
225 W
^ a b c Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic .
^ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
^ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
^ Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
^ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units and Compute units (CU)
^ a b Lacks hardware video encoder and decoder
^ GlobalFoundries ' 14 nm 14LPP FinFET process is second-sourced from Samsung Electronics .
^ In October 2017 AMD branded an additional Polaris chip as "RX 560", although it features fewer shader and texture mapping units than the first released RX 560.
^ GlobalFoundries' 12 nm 12LP process is based on Samsung's 14 nm 14LPP process.
See also
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