AMD launches Radeon RX 500-series graphics cards

Staff Writer18 April 2017

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