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]

AMD Radeon RX 500 series

Release date	18 April 2017
Codename	Polaris
Architecture	GCN 4th gen
Fabrication process	28 nm (CMOS) Samsung/GloFo 14 nm (FinFET) Samsung/GloFo 12 nm (FinFET)
Cards
Entry-level	Radeon RX 550 Radeon RX 560
Mid-range	Radeon RX 570 Radeon RX 580 Radeon RX 590
API support
Direct3D	Direct3D 12.0 (feature level 12_0) [1] Shader Model 6.0
OpenCL	OpenCL 2.0 [1]
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.5 (4.6 Windows 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+)[2][3][4][5][6]
Vulkan	Vulkan 1.2 (GCN 2nd gen and newer)[7] or Vulkan 1.0 (GCN 1st gen) SPIR-V
History
Predecessor	Radeon RX 400 series
Successor	Radeon RX Vega series Radeon 600 series (OEM)

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

• Supported display standards are: DisplayPort 1.4 HBR, HDMI 2.0b, HDR10 color.[12]
• 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.

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 1^st 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 3^rd gen 28 nm	? 125 mm^2	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 4^th gen Samsung/GloFo 14LPP[18][lower-alpha 6]	2.2×10^9 101 mm^2	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		3.0×10^9 123 mm^2	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		5.7×10^9 232 mm^2	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 4^th 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

• Graphics Core Next
• AMD Radeon Pro
• AMD FireStream
• List of AMD graphics processing units

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