AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1275MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +119%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

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Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

16

2816

Shading Units

1024

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

75W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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