Radeon RX 560DX vs RX 6900 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking22not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation29.86no data
Power efficiency16.71no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 21Polaris 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5120896
Core clock speed1825 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speed2250 MHz1175 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate720.065.80
Floating-point processing power23.04 TFLOPS2.106 TFLOPS
ROPs12816
TMUs32056
Ray Tracing Cores80no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length267 mm170 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.21.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2020 11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 65 Watt

RX 6900 XT has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

RX 560DX, on the other hand, has 361.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6900 XT and Radeon RX 560DX. We've got no test results to judge.


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