Radeon Pro 560 vs Radeon RX 480

Radeon Pro 560
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5PRO
Release date: 18 Apr 2017
Radeon Pro 560
Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Pro 560

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 480 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 480

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Pro 560Radeon RX 480
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin XT)vsEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs232 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders1024vs2304
Compute Units16vs36
Core clock925 MHzvs1120 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs64vs144

Memory Configuration

Radeon Pro 560Radeon RX 480
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1275 MHz
5100 MHz effective
vs2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Pro 560Radeon RX 480
TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date18 Apr 2017vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Pro 560
    14.80 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Pro 560
    59.20 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Pro 560
    81.60 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Pro 560
    1894.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better