AMD Radeon 500 series
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| Release date | 18 April 2017 |
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| Codename | Polaris |
| Architecture | GCN 4th gen |
| Cards | |
| Entry-level | Radeon RX 550 Radeon RX 560 |
| Mid-range | Radeon RX 570 Radeon RX 580 |
| API support | |
| Direct3D | |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 2.0 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.5 |
| Vulkan | |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Radeon 400 series |
| Successor | Radeon RX Vega series |
The Radeon 500 series is a series of graphics cards made by AMD. These cards are based on the fourth iteration of the Graphics Core Next architecture, featuring GPUs based on Polaris 20, Polaris 11, and Polaris 12 chips. Thus the RX 500 series uses the same microarchitecture and instruction set as its predecessor, while making use of improvements in the manufacturing process to enable higher clock rates.
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