Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon HD 5570

Radeon RX 560
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 560
Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 560

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 560

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 560

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 560Radeon HD 5570
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin XT)vsTurks (Turks LE)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs716 million
Shaders1024vs320
Compute Units16vs4
Core clock1090 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs64vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 560Radeon HD 5570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 560Radeon HD 5570
TDP75 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs11 Oct 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    76.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 560
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 560
    2457.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better