Radeon RX 500 series

The Radeon RX 500 series is a series of graphics cards made 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.[8] 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.[9][10]

"RX 500" redirects here. For the 1970 concept car, see Mazda RX-500.

AMD Radeon RX 500 series
Release date18 April 2017 (18 April 2017)
CodenamePolaris
ArchitectureGCN 4th gen
Fabrication process28 nm (CMOS)
Samsung/GloFo 14 nm (FinFET)
Samsung/GloFo 12 nm (FinFET)
Cards
Entry-levelRadeon RX 550
Radeon RX 560
Mid-rangeRadeon RX 570
Radeon RX 580
Radeon RX 590
API support
Direct3D
OpenCLOpenCL 2.0 [1]
OpenGLOpenGL 4.5 (4.6 Windows 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+)[2][3][4][5][6]
VulkanVulkan 1.2 (GCN 2nd gen and newer)[7] or Vulkan 1.0 (GCN 1st gen)
SPIR-V
History
PredecessorRadeon RX 400 series
Successor

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.[11] Polaris 30 chips are produced on a 12 nm FinFET process, developed by Samsung and GlobalFoundries.

Chipset table
XFX AMD Radeon RX 570 RS 8GB XXX Edition


Desktop and laptop
Model
(Codename)		 Release Date
& Price		 Architecture
& Fab		 Transistors
& Die Size		 Core Fillrate[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] Processing power[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 4]
(GFLOPS)		 Memory TBP (W) Bus interface
Config[lower-alpha 5] Clock[lower-alpha 1] (MHz) Texture (GT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Single Double Bus type
& width		 Size (GiB) Clock (MT/s) Band-
width (GB/s)
Radeon
520[13]		 April 18, 2017
OEM		 GCN 1st gen
28 nm		 Un­known 320:20:4
5 CU		 1030
20.6
4.1
659		 Un­known GDDR5
64-bit		 1
2		 4500 48 Un­known Un­known
Radeon
530[14]		 April 18, 2017
OEM		 GCN 3rd gen
28 nm		 ?
125 mm2		 320:20:8
384:24:8
6/5 CU
1024
24.6
8.2		 655
786		 Un­known GDDR5
64-bit		 1
2
4[15]		 Un­known Un­known
DDR3 Un­known Un­known
Radeon
RX 540
(Lexa)[16][17]		 April 18, 2017
OEM		 GCN 4th gen
Samsung/GloFo
14LPP[18][lower-alpha 6]		 2.2×109
101 mm2		 512:32:16
8 CU		 1219 39 19.5 1248 78 GDDR5
128-bit		 2
4		 6000 96 Un­known PCIe 3.0 x8
Radeon
RX 550
(Lexa)[20][21]		 April 20, 2017
$79 USD		 640:40:16
10 CU		 1100[22]
1183		 35.2
37.9		 17.6
18.9		 1126
1211		 70.4
75.7		 7000 112 50
Radeon
550X
(Lexa)[23]		 April 11, 2018
OEM		 640:40:16
10 CU
1287
51.48
20.6
1647
103		 GDDR5
64-bit		 7000 56 50
Radeon
RX 550X
(Lexa)[24]		 April 3, 2018
$79 USD		 512:40:16
640:40:16
8/10 CU
1287
51.48
20.6		 1318
1647		 82.4
103		 GDDR5
128-bit		 7000 112 50
Radeon
RX 560D[25][26][27]		 July 2017
Only available in China and through OEMs		 3.0×109
123 mm2		 896:56:16
14 CU		 1090
1175		 61.0
65.8		 17,4
18.8		 1953
2106		 122,0
131.6		 6000 96 65
Radeon
RX 560[lower-alpha 7]
(Baffin)[25]		 October 2017
$99 USD		 896:56:16
14 CU		 1090
1175		 61.0
65.8		 17.4
18.8		 1953
2106		 122.0
131.6		 7000 112 60-80
Radeon
RX 560[lower-alpha 7]
(Baffin)[28][21]		 May 2017
$99 USD		 1024:64:16
16 CU		 1175
1275		 75.2
81.6		 18.8
20.4		 2406
2611		 150.4
163.2		 7000 112 60–80
Radeon
RX 570
(Polaris20 XL)[29][21]		 April 18, 2017
$169 USD		 5.7×109
232 mm2		 2048:128:32
32 CU		 1168
1244		 149.5
159.2		 37.4
39.8		 4784
5095		 299.0
318.4		 GDDR5
256-bit		 4
8		 7000 224 150 PCIe 3.0 x16
Radeon
RX 580
(Polaris20 XT)[30][21]		 April 18, 2017
$199 USD (4 GB)
$229 USD (8 GB)		 2304:144:32
36 CU		 1257
1340		 181.0
193.0		 40.2
42.9		 5792
6175		 362.0
385.9		 8000 256 185
Radeon
RX 590 GME[31][32]		 March 9, 2020
Only available in China		 Un­known 2304:144:32
36 CU		 1257
1380		 181.0
198.7		 40.2
44.2		 5792
6359		 362.0
397.4		 8 8000 256 Un­known
Radeon
RX 590
(Polaris30 XT)[33]		 November 15, 2018
$279 USD		 GCN 4th gen
Samsung/GloFo
12LP (14LP+)[lower-alpha 8]		 2304:144:32
36 CU		 1469
1545		 211.5
222.5		 47.0
49.4		 6769
7120		 423.0
444.9		 8000 256 225
  1. Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.
  2. Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  3. Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  4. Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
  5. Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units and Compute Units (CU)
  6. GlobalFoundries' 14 nm 14LPP FinFET process is second-sourced from Samsung Electronics.[19]
  7. In October 2017 AMD branded an additional Polaris chip as "RX 560", although it features less shader and texture mapping units than the first released RX 560.
  8. GlobalFoundries' 12 nm 12LP process is based on Samsung's 14 nm 14LPP process.[19]

Radeon feature matrix

The following table shows features of AMD's GPUs (see also: List of AMD graphics processing units).

Name of GPU series Wonder Mach 3D Rage Rage Pro Rage R100 R200 R300 R400 R500 R600 RV670 R700 Evergreen Northern
Islands		 Southern
Islands		 Sea
Islands		 Volcanic
Islands		 Arctic
Islands/Polaris		 Vega Navi Big Navi
Released 1986 1991 1996 1997 1998 Apr 2000 Aug 2001 Sep 2002 May 2004 Oct 2005 May 2007 Nov 2007 Jun 2008 Sep 2009 Oct 2010 Jan 2012 Sep 2013 Jun 2015 Jun 2016 Jun 2017 Jul 2019 Nov 2020
Marketing Name Wonder Mach 3D Rage Rage Pro Rage Radeon 7000 Radeon 8000 Radeon 9000 Radeon X700/X800 Radeon X1000 Radeon HD 2000 Radeon HD 3000 Radeon HD 4000 Radeon HD 5000 Radeon HD 6000 Radeon HD 7000 Radeon Rx 200 Radeon Rx 300 Radeon RX 400/500 Radeon RX Vega/Radeon VII(7nm) Radeon RX 5000 Radeon RX 6000
AMD support
Kind 2D 3D
Instruction set Not publicly known TeraScale instruction set GCN instruction set RDNA instruction set
Microarchitecture TeraScale 1 TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) GCN 1st gen GCN 2nd gen GCN 3rd gen GCN 4th gen GCN 5th gen RDNA RDNA 2
Type Fixed pipeline[lower-alpha 1] Programmable pixel & vertex pipelines Unified shader model
Direct3D N/A 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.1 9.0
11 (9_2)		 9.0b
11 (9_2)		 9.0c
11 (9_3)		 10.0
11 (10_0)		 10.1
11 (10_1)		 11 (11_0) 11 (11_1)
12 (11_1)		 11 (12_0)
12 (12_0)		 11 (12_1)
12 (12_1)		 11 (12_2)
12 (12_2)
Shader model N/A 1.4 2.0+ 2.0b 3.0 4.0 4.1 5.0 5.1 5.1
6.3		 6.4 6.5
OpenGL N/A 1.1 1.2 1.3 2.0[lower-alpha 2] 3.3 4.5 (on Linux + Mesa 3D: 4.5 with FP64 HW support, 4.3 without)[34][4][5][lower-alpha 3] 4.6 (on Linux: 4.6 (Mesa 20.0))
Vulkan N/A 1.0
(Win 7+ or Mesa 17+)		 1.2 (Adrenalin 20.1, Linux Mesa 20.0)
OpenCL N/A Close to Metal 1.1 1.2 2.0 (Adrenalin driver on Win7+)
(on Linux: 1.2 with Mesa 3D, 2.1 with AMD drivers or AMD ROCm)		 ? 2.1 [35]
HSA N/A ?
Video decoding ASIC N/A Avivo/UVD UVD+ UVD 2 UVD 2.2 UVD 3 UVD 4 UVD 4.2 UVD 5.0 or 6.0 UVD 6.3 UVD 7[36][lower-alpha 4] VCN 2.0[36][lower-alpha 4] VCN 3.0[37]
Video encoding ASIC N/A VCE 1.0 VCE 2.0 VCE 3.0 or 3.1 VCE 3.4 VCE 4.0[36][lower-alpha 4]
Fluid Motion
Power saving ? PowerPlay PowerTune PowerTune & ZeroCore Power ?
TrueAudio N/A Via dedicated DSP Via shaders ?
FreeSync N/A 1
2
HDCP[lower-alpha 5] ? 1.4 1.4
2.2		 1.4
2.2
2.3		 ?
PlayReady[lower-alpha 5] N/A 3.0 3.0 ?
Supported displays[lower-alpha 6] 1–2 2 2–6 ?
Max. resolution ? 2–6 ×
2560×1600		 2–6 ×
4096×2160 @ 60 Hz		 2–6 ×
5120×2880 @ 60 Hz		 3 ×
7680×4320 @ 60 Hz[38]		 ?
/drm/radeon[lower-alpha 7] N/A
/drm/amdgpu[lower-alpha 7] N/A Experimental[39]
  1. The Radeon 100 Series has programmable pixel shaders, but do not fully comply with DirectX 8 or Pixel Shader 1.0. See article on R100's pixel shaders.
  2. These series do not fully comply with OpenGL 2+ as the hardware does not support all types of non-power of two (NPOT) textures.
  3. OpenGL 4+ compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders and these are emulated on some TeraScale chips using 32-bit hardware.
  4. The UVD and VCE were replaced by the Video Core Next (VCN) ASIC in the Raven Ridge APU implementation of Vega.
  5. To play protected video content, it also requires card, operating system, driver, and application support. A compatible HDCP display is also needed for this. HDCP is mandatory for the output of certain audio formats, placing additional constraints on the multimedia setup.
  6. More displays may be supported with native DisplayPort connections, or splitting the maximum resolution between multiple monitors with active converters.
  7. DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) is a component of the Linux kernel. Support in this table refers to the most current version.

See also

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