AMD Silently Lowers Radeon RX 560 Specifications, Now Covers RX 460-class Products (Updated) - ZedBlog

Spotted yesterday by Heise.de, AMD has silently lowered the specifications of the Radeon RX 560 to encompass parts with 14 CUs (896 Stream Processors), allowing them to be sold alongside standard 16 CU (1024 SP) parts. The net effect of this change is that it allows Radeon RX 460-level products to be sold as Radeon RX 560 cards.With the RX 500 series Polaris family refresh, AMD based the Radeon RX 560 on a fully enabled Polaris 11 GPU, meaning all 16 of its CUs were active. By contrast, AMD never shipped a fully enabled Polaris 11 part under the 400 series (excluding the Macbook Pro specific Radeon Pro 460), so the RX 560 was a notable step up from the 14 CU Radeon RX 460. And while the logistics of chip binning meant that AMD never stopped producing 14 CU GPUs, once AMD did opt to sell a 14 CU part under RX 500 series lineup, it was introduced as the regionally-limited RX 560D.July (top) vs Current (bottom) RX 560 GPU Specifications on AMD.comHowever as it turns out, at some point recently in the past, AMD has also approved selling 14 CU parts as standard RX 560 cards.

As discovered by Heise.de, sometime within the past few months the Radeon RX 560 product page on AMD's website was silently changed to include the lowered 14 CU specifications, with July still listing "16 CUs" only. The page does not note any change and still lists 4/18/17 as the full launch date, so short of knowing what to look for, the lowered specifications are practically a footnote.(Revised) AMD Radeon RX 560 Specification Comparison AMD Radeon RX 560 (New)AMD Radeon RX 560 (Old)AMD Radeon RX 460AMD Radeon R7 360Compute Units14/16 CUs(896/1024 SPs)16 CUs(1024 SPs)14 CUs(896 SPs)12 CUs(768 SPs)Texture Units56/64645648ROPs16161616Base Clock