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AMD Radeon RX 570X

The AMD Radeon RX 570X is a graphics card released on April 3, 2018, built on the GCN architecture. It has 2,048 shading units, 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.24 GHz and a 120 W board power rating. It scores 1,923 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6.

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10/10 key specs recorded · 57 facts

Depth: 36 recorded fields, 10 features

Specification data last verified July 27, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and AMD.com Specifications. Coverage: 10 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark AMD.com Specifications PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

2,048cores

32 compute units

Memory

8 GB

GDDR5 · 256-bit

Boost clock

1.24 GHz

1.17 GHz base

Board power

120 W

Performance

The AMD Radeon RX 570X scores 1,923 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 65.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,016), measured across 1 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 750.

PassMark G3D Mark

1,923

Rank #1,016
Faster than 65.5% of 2,658 GPUs
1 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

Theoretical throughput

FP32 (single precision) 5.1 TFLOPS stated by AMD

Pixel fill rate 39.81 GPixel/s stated by AMD

Texture fill rate 159.23 GTexel/s stated by AMD

AMD states a peak of FP32 (single precision) 5.1 TFLOPS, Pixel fill rate 39.81 GPixel/s and Texture fill rate 159.23 GTexel/s for the AMD Radeon RX 570X.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 8 GB

Core clock 1168 MHz

Memory clock 7000 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Max TDP 120 W

First benchmarked 2020-01-11

Samples 1

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon RX 570X states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 8 GB of memory, a core clock of 1168 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2020-01-11. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture GCN

Codename Not recorded

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors 5,700 M

Die size Not recorded

The AMD Radeon RX 570X is based on the GCN architecture and contains 5,700 million transistors.

Shader configuration

Shading units 2,048

Compute units 32

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded

Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD Radeon RX 570X has 2,048 shading units and 32 compute units.

The AMD Radeon RX 570X does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the AMD Radeon RX 570X.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.17 GHz

Boost clock 1.24 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The AMD Radeon RX 570X runs at a base clock of 1.17 GHz and boosts to 1.24 GHz.

Memory

Size 8 GB

Type GDDR5

Bus width 256-bit

Bandwidth 224.0 GB/s

The AMD Radeon RX 570X is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR5 memory, uses a 256-bit memory bus and delivers 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The AMD Radeon RX 570X has a board power rating of 120 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 120 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched April 3, 2018

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series Radeon RX

The AMD Radeon RX 570X was released on April 3, 2018.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 1,923

PassMark G2D 750

Rank #1,016

Samples 1

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD Radeon RX 570X supports DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6 (stated by PassMark)

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Radeon RX 570X. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Radeon RX 570X. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the AMD Radeon RX 570X.

Features

The AMD Radeon RX 570X has 4 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Display features

Supported: AMD FreeSync

Support for AMD's variable refresh rate technology, which syncs compatible displays to the GPU to reduce tearing and stutter.
Supported: HDMI 4K output

The vendor states the GPU can drive a 4K display over HDMI.

Not listed (6)

No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 570X supports Stereoscopic 3D, 10-bit color output, VR ready, 8K display output, HDR output and 12-bit color output. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The AMD Radeon RX 570X supports AMD FreeSync and HDMI 4K output under Display features.

Software and drivers

Supported: Radeon Chill

AMD driver feature that lowers frame rate when there is little on-screen action to cut power use and heat.
Supported: Radeon ReLive

AMD's built-in tool for recording and streaming gameplay.

Not listed (6)

No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 570X supports Enhanced Sync, Image sharpening, Radeon Anti-Lag, Radeon Boost, Radeon Super Resolution and AMD Fluid Motion Frames. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The AMD Radeon RX 570X supports Radeon Chill and Radeon ReLive under Software and drivers.

Media engine

The AMD Radeon RX 570X provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265).

Hardware video codec support of the AMD Radeon RX 570X
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)4K H.264: encode supported, decode supported	Supported	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Not listed: AV1 and VP9. No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 570X supports these codecs; that is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.