AMD Announces Radeon RX 5600 Series: A Lighter Navi To Rule 1080p Gaming
by Ryan Smith on January 6, 2020 5:46 PM ESTRadeon RX 5600 For OEMs, & Radeon RX5600M For Mobile
While the biggest part of today’s Radeon RX 5600 series launch is the retail desktop for obvious reasons, this is not the only market AMD will be addressing. The company believes they have a winning part in the works, and to that end they are going to extend the Radeon RX 5600 series over the entire market, covering OEM desktop and mobile as well.
Starting things off for the OEM desktop side, AMD will also be releasing the Radeon RX 5600 for that market. Similar to what we saw with the OEM-only Radeon RX 5500, the Radeon RX 5600 is a similar, but slightly slower part. The big difference here is that while clockspeeds and TBPs remain unchanged, these OEM parts will only ship with 32 CUs enabled instead of 36 CUs enabled.
| AMD Radeon RX OEM Specification Comparison | ||||||
| AMD Radeon RX 5600 (OEM) | AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT | AMD Radeon RX 5500 (OEM) | AMD Radeon RX 5700 | |||
| CUs | 32 (2048 SPs) |
36 (2304 SPs) |
22 (1408 SPs) |
36 (2304 SPs) |
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| Texture Units | 128 | 144 | 88 | 144 | ||
| ROPs | 64 | 64 | 32 | 64 | ||
| Base Clock | 1265MHz? | 1265MHz? | ? | 1465MHz | ||
| Game Clock | 1375MHz | 1375MHz | <=1670MHz | 1625MHz | ||
| Boost Clock | 1560MHz | 1560MHz | <=1845MHz | 1725MHz | ||
| Throughput (FP32) | 6.4 TFLOPs | 7.2 TFLOPs | <=5.2 TFLOPs | 7.95 TFLOPs | ||
| Memory Clock | 12 Gbps GDDR6 | 12 Gbps GDDR6 | 14 Gbps GDDR6 | 14 Gbps GDDR6 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 192-bit | 192-bit | 128-bit | 256-bit | ||
| VRAM | 6GB | 6GB | 4GB/8GB | 8GB | ||
| Transistor Count | 10.3B | 10.3B | 6.4B | 10.3B | ||
| Typical Board Power | 150W | 150W | 150W | 180W | ||
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | ||
| Architecture | RDNA (1) | RDNA (1) | RDNA (1) | RDNA (1) | ||
| GPU | Navi 10 | Navi 10 | Navi 14 | Navi 10 | ||
| Launch Date | 01/21/2020 | 01/21/2020 | Q4 2019 | 07/07/2019 | ||
| Launch Price | N/A | $279 | N/A | $349 | ||
On paper, this gives the Radeon RX 5600 somewhere around 90% of the retail Radeon RX 5600 XT’s performance. The precise performance gap will vary with games and whether they’re compute/shader bound or pixel/bandwidth bound, but again, it’s a ballpark figure.
Meanwhile in the mobile space, the 5600 series will be rounded out by the Radeon RX 5600M. Unlike the OEM desktop card, AMD isn’t holding back any punches here, and the 5600M will ship with the same 36 CUs as the retail card.
| AMD Radeon RX Series Mobile Specification Comparison | ||||||
| AMD Radeon RX 5600M | AMD Radeon RX 5500M | AMD Radeon Vega Pro 20 | AMD Radeon RX 560X | |||
| CUs | 36 | 22 | 20 | 14/16 | ||
| Texture Units | 144 | 88 | 80 | 64 | ||
| ROPs | 64 | 32 | 32 | 16 | ||
| Game Clock | <=1375MHz | <=1448MHz | N/A | N/A | ||
| Boost Clock | <=1560MHz | <=1645MHz | 1300MHz | 1275MHz | ||
| Throughput (FP32) | <= 7.2 TFLOPs | <=4.6 TFLOPs | 3.3 TFLOPs | 2.6 TFLOPs | ||
| Memory Clock | 12 Gbps GDDR6 | 14 Gbps GDDR6 | 1.5 Gbps HBM2 | 7 Gbps GDDR5 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 192-bit | 128-bit | 1024-bit | 128-bit | ||
| Max VRAM | 6GB | 4GB | 4GB | 4GB | ||
| Typical Board Power | N/A (Min: 60W) | 85W | ? | ? | ||
| Architecture | RDNA (1) | RDNA (1) | Vega (GCN 5) |
GCN 4 | ||
| GPU | Navi 10 | Navi 14 | Vega 12 | Polaris 11 | ||
| Launch Date | 01/21/2020 | 10/2019 | 10/2018 | 04/2018 | ||
But, like AMDs other Navi mobile parts, the clockspeeds and TDPs are up to the OEMs. So OEMs will be free to dial them up and down (to a degree) to hit the specific performance/power consumption they’re looking for in a laptop. Consequently, AMD doesn’t have a maximum TBP here, but they have set a minimum: 60 Watts. Radeon RX 5600M will not be a light chip.
It won’t be a small chip either, which is what makes this announcement particularly interesting. Since this is all based on Navi 10, any OEM using the RX 5600M will have to accommodate the moderately sized chip and its accompanying 6 GDDR6 chips. This shouldn’t be a challenge for OEMs, who already regularly include NVIDIA’s even larger chips, but to date AMD’s laptop wins have almost exclusively been their mobile-focused GPUs like Polaris 11 and Navi 14, which are available in low z-height packages. So the RX 5600M will require a greater commitment from laptop partners than what we’ve seen in the past, both with respect to power/cooling as well as sheer board space.
The OEM Radeon RX 5600 and the Radeon RX 5600M should be available soon. And with CES in full swing, there shouldn’t be any shortage of partners announcing systems with the new video cards over the next couple of days.
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voodooboy - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
Learn to read.The slides clearly show it beating the GTX 1660 Ti as well as the GTX 1660 Super overclocked parts by a decent enough margin. And it matches their price.
You’re welcome.
maroon1 - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
1660 Ti is useless because 1660 Super give almost same performance for lower price. 1660 Ti does not have the best performance per dollar among 1660 seriesAlso, do not forget those benchmarks are from AMD. It is not coming from neutral source.
Irata - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
If you look at the benchmarks AMD published, it's vs. a GTX 1660 Super *OC*.Looking at Newegg prices, these are noticeably more expensive than plain vanilla 1660 Super, so the RX 5600XT will probably end up costing the same.
flyingpants265 - Monday, January 13, 2020 - link
Even $250 seems too high when XFX 5700s have been going for $299 recently. I strongly feel/hope that these 5600XTs will be available for $199-230 within about 6 months.Rudde - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
Does it have 36 CUs as on the table or 32 CUs as in the picture? I would think the latter.Rudde - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
One of the slides in the slide deck is broken.neblogai - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
36CUs in 5600XT, 32CUs in 5600 (might be OEM or select markets).https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications/gra...
shabby - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
Is amd gimping this card with an 8x pcie interface like the rx 5500?Kangal - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
Probably not, these are basically cut-down RX 5700 XT cards after all.Overall, the entire Navi stack is only impressive compared to the initial Turing cards. Their new variants with faster performance and cheaper prices, they've really knocked the wind out of Navi's sail. And so, yes they're competitive but not great on each properties.
To make matters worse, I don't envision AMD making much of a significant improvement for 2021 or Navi+. They'll be using a +7nm node, and a slightly refined architecture... it will be something like 20%. Whereas Nvidia is poised to make a massive improvement with a new architecture and as well as using a comparative 7nm node. That way tomorrow's RX 5700XT owners, are essentially going to be like today's RX 590 owners, or yesterday's GTX 970 owners. So those impressive specs from the PS5 and the Xbox X are going to be downgraded from high-end to midrange immediately. However, game publishers will still target the Base PS4 level for a couple years, which will have an impact on PC port titles.
Korguz - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
and probably a massive price increase to go with those new nvidia cards....