AMD
AMD Radeon RX 560
AMD's entry-level Polaris 21 card for 1080p esports gaming uses 16 compute units (1,024 stream processors) at up to 1,275MHz with GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus, rated at 60-80W. AMD later confirmed that some RX 560 cards ship with 14 compute units (896 stream processors); this record covers the 1,024-processor configuration.
Pros
- 1,024 stream processors in the full configuration, rated by AMD at up to 2.6 TFLOPs
- Low 60-80W typical board power suits small-form-factor and modest power supplies
- Up to 4GB of GDDR5 with 112GB/s of bandwidth
- 14nm FinFET process with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support
Cons
- Some RX 560 cards use a 14 compute unit, 896-processor configuration, so the name does not guarantee the full chip
- 128-bit memory bus limits bandwidth to 112GB/s
- No ray tracing hardware or machine-learning upscaling
- Long out of production, with 2GB and 4GB variants making specs vary by board
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Radeon RX 560
General
- Announced
- 2017
- Architecture
- Polaris (GCN 4)
- Process
- 14 nm
- TDP
- 80 W
Cores & Clocks
- Shading units
- 1,024
- Base clock
- 1,175 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1,275 MHz
Memory
- VRAM
- 4 GB
- VRAM type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 128 bit
- Bandwidth
- 112 GB/s
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Time Spy
- 1,851Bottom 5%
- PassMark G3D
- 3,688Bottom 3%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Radeon RX 560 good in 2026?
The AMD Radeon RX 560 earns an Inno Score of 30.6/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. AMD's entry-level Polaris 21 card for 1080p esports gaming uses 16 compute units (1,024 stream processors) at up to 1,275MHz with GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus, rated at 60-80W. AMD later confirmed that some RX 560 cards ship with 14 compute units (896 stream processors); this record covers the 1,024-processor configuration.
What are the key specs of the AMD Radeon RX 560?
VRAM: 4 GB · Boost clock: 1,275 MHz · TDP: 80 W · 3DMark Time Spy: 1,851
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Radeon RX 560?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630, AMD Radeon RX 550, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
