AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

Lower TDP (45W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

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

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +172%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Apr 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

44

-

896

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

500W

200 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Vesuvius

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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