Radeon 500 series

"RX 500" redirects here. For the 1970 concept car, see Mazda RX-500.

The Radeon 500 series is a series of graphics processors developed 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]

Radeon 500 Series

AMD Radeon RX 590, the flagship card of the RX 500 series
Release date	April 18, 2017 (7 years ago) (2017-04-18)
Codename	Polaris
Architecture	GCN 1st gen GCN 3rd gen GCN 4th gen
Transistors	690M (Banks) 28 nm 1.550M (Weston) 28 nm 2.200M (Lexa) 14 nm 3.000M (Baffin) 14 nm 3.000M (Polaris 21) 14 nm 5.700M (Polaris 20) 14 nm 5.700M (Polaris 30) 12 nm
Fabrication process	TSMC 28 nm (CMOS) Samsung/GloFo 14 nm (FinFET) Samsung/GloFo 12 nm (FinFET)
Cards
Entry-level	Radeon 520 Radeon 530 Radeon 535 Radeon 540 Radeon 540X Radeon 550X Radeon RX 540 Radeon RX 540X
Mid-range	Radeon RX 550 Radeon RX 550X Radeon RX 560 Radeon RX 560X
High-end	Radeon RX 570 Radeon RX 570X Radeon RX 580 Radeon RX 580X
Enthusiast	Radeon RX 590
API support
DirectX	Direct3D 12.0 (feature level 12_0)[1] Shader Model 6.7 (GCN 4th gen) or Shader Model 6.5
OpenCL	OpenCL 2.1[1]
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.5 (4.6 Windows 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+)[2][3][4][5][6]
Vulkan	Vulkan 1.3 (GCN 4th gen) or Vulkan 1.2[7] SPIR-V
History
Predecessor	Radeon 400 series
Successor	Radeon RX Vega series Radeon 600 series (OEM)
Support status
GCN 4 cards supported

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

• 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.
• VGA-Ports at resolutions up to 2048x1536 are also supported, despite ports not being present on the reference cards, though VGA ports are mostly found on cards sold in Eastern Asia exclusively.

Desktop and laptop

Model (Code name)	Release Date & Price	Architecture & fab	Transistors & die size	Core		Fillrate[a][b][c]		Processing power[a][d] (GFLOPS)		Memory				TBP	Bus interface
				Config[e]	Clock[a] (MHz)	Texture (GT/s)	Pixel (GP/s)	Single	Double	Size	Bus type & width	Clock (MT/s)	Bandwidth (GB/s)
Radeon 520 (Banks)[f][13][14]	Apr 18, 2017 OEM	GCN 1 28 nm	690×106 56mm2	320:20:4 5 CU	1030	20.6	4.1	659.2	41.2	1 GB 2 GB	DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit	2000 4500	16 36	?	PCIe 3.0 ×8
Radeon 530 (Weston)[f][15]		GCN 3 28 nm	? 125 mm2	320:20:8 5 CU	1024	20.480	8.2	655.36	40.96	1 GB 2 GB 4 GB[16]	DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit	1800 4500	14.4 36
				384:24:8 6 CU		24.576		786.432	49.152
Radeon RX 540 (Polaris 12)[17][18]		GCN 4 GloFo 14LPP[g][20]	2.2×109 101 mm2	512:32:16 8 CU	1124 1219	35.968 39.008	17.984 19.504	1150.976 1248.256	71.936 78.016	2 GB 4 GB	GDDR5 128-bit	6000	96		PCIe 3.0 ×8
Radeon RX 550 (Polaris 12)[21][22][23]	Apr 20, 2017 $79 USD				1100 1183	35.2 37.856	17.6 18.928	1126.4 1211.392	70.4 75.712			7000	112	50 W
Radeon RX 550 640SP (Polaris 11)[24]	Apr 20, 2017 $79 USD		3.0×109 123 mm2	640:40:16 10 CU	1019 1071	40.76 42.84	16.304 17.136	1304.32 1370.88	81.52 85.68			6000	96	60 W
Radeon RX 550X (Polaris 12)[25]	Apr 11, 2018 $79 USD		2.2×109 101 mm2	512:32:16 8 CU	1100 1287	35.2 41.184	17.6 20.592	1126.4 1317.888	70.4 82.368			7000	112	50 W
Radeon RX 550X 640SP (Polaris 11)[26]	Apr 11, 2018 OEM		3.0×109 123 mm2	640:40:16 10 CU	1019 1071	40.76 42.84	16.304 17.136	1304.32 1370.88	81.52 85.68			6000	96	60 W
Radeon RX 560D (Polaris 21)[27][28][29]	Jul 4, 2017 OEM and China Only		3.0×109 123 mm2	896:56:16 14 CU	1090 1175	61.0 65.8	17,4 18.8	1953 2106	122,0 131.6					65 W
Radeon RX 560[h] (Polaris 21)[22][27][30]	Jul 4, 2017 $99 USD				1090 1175	61.0 65.8	17.4 18.8	1953 2106	122.0 131.6			7000	112	60-80 W
	Apr 18, 2017 $99 USD			1024:64:16 16 CU	1175 1275	75.2 81.6	18.8 20.4	2406 2611	150.4 163.2
Radeon RX 560 XT (Polaris 10/20)[31]	Mar 13, 2019 China Only		5.7×109 232 mm2	1792:112:32 28 CU	973 1073	109.0 120.2	31.1 34.3	3487 3846	217.3 240.4	4 GB 8 GB	GDDR5 256-bit	6600	211	150 W	PCIe 3.0 ×16
Radeon RX 570 (Polaris 20)[32][22]	Apr 18, 2017 $169 USD			2048:128:32 32 CU	1168 1244	149.5 159.2	37.4 39.8	4784 5095	299.0 318.4			7000	224
Radeon RX 580 2048SP (Polaris 20)[33]	Oct 15, 2018 China Only				1168 1284
Radeon RX 580 (Polaris 20)[34][22]	Apr 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 W
Radeon RX 590 GME (Polaris 20)[35][36][37]	March 9, 2020 China Only				1257 1380	181.0 198.7	40.2 44.2	5792 6359	362.0 397.4	8 GB				175 W
Radeon RX 590 (Polaris 30)[38]	Nov 15, 2018 $279 USD	GCN 4 Samsung/GloFo 12LP (14LP+)[i]			1469 1545	211.5 222.5	47.0 49.4	6769 7120	423.0 444.9					225 W
Model (Code name)	Release Date & Price	Architecture & fab	Transistors & die size	Config[e]	Clock[a] (MHz)	Texture (GT/s)	Pixel (GP/s)	Single	Double	Size	Bus type & width	Clock (MT/s)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	TBP	Bus interface
				Core		Fillrate[a][b][c]		Processing power[a][d] (GFLOPS)		Memory

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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. Lacks hardware video encoder and decoder
7. GlobalFoundries' 14 nm 14LPP FinFET process is second-sourced from Samsung Electronics.^[19]
8. In October 2017 AMD branded an additional Polaris chip as "RX 560", although it features fewer shader and texture mapping units than the first released RX 560.
9. GlobalFoundries' 12 nm 12LP process is based on Samsung's 14 nm 14LPP process.^[19]

See also

• AMD Radeon Pro
• AMD FireStream
• List of AMD graphics processing units

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